Leptusa
Leptusa is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leptusa.[1][2][3]
| Leptusa | |
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| Leptusa carolinensis | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Coleoptera | 
| Family: | Staphylinidae | 
| Subtribe: | Leptusina | 
| Genus: | Leptusa Kraatz, 1856  | 
Species
    
- Leptusa atrocephala Bernhauer, 1905
 - Leptusa bakeri (Casey, 1911)
 - Leptusa brevicollis Casey, 1893
 - Leptusa californiana Pace, 1989
 - Leptusa canonica Casey, 1906
 - Leptusa carolinensis Pace, 1989
 - Leptusa cribratula (Casey, 1906)
 - Leptusa elegans Blatchley, 1910
 - Leptusa frontalis (Casey, 1893)
 - Leptusa gatineauensis Klimaszewski and Pelletier in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
 - Leptusa gimmeli
 - Leptusa gracilis (Sachse, 1852)
 - Leptusa jucunda Klimaszewski and Majka in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
 - Leptusa laticollis Notman, 1921
 - Leptusa nanula (Casey, 1893)
 - Leptusa obscura Blatchley, 1910
 - Leptusa opaca Casey, 1893
 - Leptusa pseudopaca Klimaszewski and Majka in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
 - Leptusa pusio (Casey, 1906)
 - Leptusa smetanaiella Pace, 1989
 - Leptusa smokyiensis Pace, 1989
 - Leptusa virginica (Casey, 1911)
 
References
    
- "Leptusa Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
 - "Leptusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
 - "Leptusa Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
 
Further reading
    
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; M. C. Thomas; P. E. Skelley; J. H. Frank, eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
 - Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
 - Richard E. White (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
 - Brunke A, Marshall S (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys (75): 29–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMID 21594139.
 - Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Chandler D, Savard K, Li A (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys (22): 19–33. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.
 - Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Li A, Savard K (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys (22): 5–17. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.
 - Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Assing V, Savard K (2008). "Diglotta mersa (Haliday) and Halobrecta flavipes Thomson, two new species for the Canadian fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". ZooKeys (2): 175–188. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.18.
 - Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K (2009). "First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". ZooKeys (22): 45–79. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.153.
 - Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K (2009). "Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information". ZooKeys (22): 81–170. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.219.
 - Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". ZooKeys (46): 15–39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413.
 
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