Leptinus
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
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| image = Leptinus occidentamericanus.jpg
| image_caption = Leptinus occidentamericanus
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Coleoptera
| familia = Leiodidae
| subfamilia = Platypsyllinae
| genus = Leptinus
| genus_authority = Müller, 1817
}}
Leptinus is a genus of mammal-nest beetles in the family Leiodidae, sometimes referred to as "mouse nest beetles".[https://bugguide.net/node/view/512844/bgpage BugGuide] There are at least 3 described species in Leptinus.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/512844|title=Leptinus Genus Information|website=BugGuide.net|access-date=2018-02-01}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=113813|title=Leptinus Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|access-date=2018-02-01}}
Species
- Leptinus americanus LeConte, 1866
- Leptinus occidentamericanus Peck, 1982
- Leptinus orientamericanus Peck, 1982
References
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- Majka C, Langor D (2008). "The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography". ZooKeys 2: 357–402.
- Peck, Stewart B. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, eds. (2001). "Family 19. Leiodidae Fleming, 1821". American Beetles, vol. 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia, 250–258.
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Further reading
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- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- {{Cite book| author = Ross H. Arnett| date = 30 July 2000| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico| publisher = CRC Press| isbn = 978-0-8493-0212-1}}
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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