Leptusa

Leptusa
Leptusa carolinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subtribe:	Leptusina
Genus:	Leptusa Kraatz, 1856

Leptusa is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leptusa.

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)

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. Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...29B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMC 3088045. 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" (PDF). ZooKeys (22): 19–33. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...19M. 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. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22....5M. 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)" (PDF). ZooKeys (2): 175–188. Bibcode:2008ZooK....2..175K. 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. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...45K. 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. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...81K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.219. S2CID 84369341.
• Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". ZooKeys (46): 15–39. Bibcode:2010ZooK...46...15M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413.