Leptusa
{{short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Leptusa
| authority = Kraatz, 1856
| image = Leptusa carolinensis.jpg
| image_caption = Leptusa carolinensis
}}
Leptusa is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leptusa.{{cite web|title=Leptusa Genus Information|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/474035|website=BugGuide.net|accessdate=2018-02-06}}{{cite web|title=Leptusa Report|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=724521|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=2018-02-06}}{{cite web|title=Leptusa Overview|url=http://eol.org/pages/11088/overview|website=Encyclopedia of Life|accessdate=2018-02-06}}
Species
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- 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
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Further reading
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- {{cite book
| editor = Arnett, R.H. Jr.
| editor2 = M. C. Thomas
| editor3 = P. E. Skelley
| editor4 = J. H. Frank
| date = 21 June 2002
| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
| publisher = CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
}}
- {{cite book
| author = Arnett, Ross H.
| date = 2000
| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
| publisher = CRC Press.
}}
- {{cite book
| author = Richard E. White
| date = 1983
| title = Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company.
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Brunke A, Marshall S
| date = 2011
| title = 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
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 75
| pages = 29–68
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.75.767
| pmid = 21594139
| doi-access = free
| pmc = 3088045
| bibcode = 2011ZooK...75...29B
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Chandler D, Savard K, Li A
| date = 2009
| title = Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 22
| pages = 19–33
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.177
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2009ZooK...22...19M
| url = http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e437/9a5bf36f8cc1987a316a66d6dc38a2934939.pdf
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Li A, Savard K
| date = 2009
| title = Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 22
| pages = 5–17
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.86
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2009ZooK...22....5M
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Assing V, Savard K
| date = 2008
| title = Diglotta mersa (Haliday) and Halobrecta flavipes Thomson, two new species for the Canadian fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 2
| pages = 175–188
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.2.18
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2008ZooK....2..175K
| url = http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0feb/3e73d42747b98a43165c925607da8e0bac8f.pdf
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K
| date = 2009
| title = First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 22
| pages = 45–79
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.153
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2009ZooK...22...45K
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K
| date = 2009
| title = Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 22
| pages = 81–170
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.219
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2009ZooK...22...81K
| s2cid = 84369341
}}
- {{cite journal
| vauthors = Majka C, Klimaszewski J
| date = 2010
| title = Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
| journal = ZooKeys
| issue = 46
| pages = 15–39
| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.46.413
| doi-access = free
| bibcode = 2010ZooK...46...15M
}}
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