Leptinus

Genus of beetles

Leptinus

Leptinus occidentamericanus
Scientific classification
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Coleoptera

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Leiodidae

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Platypsyllinae

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Leptinus

Müller, 1817

Leptinus is a genus of mammal-nest beetles in the family Leiodidae, sometimes referred to as "mouse nest beetles".[1] There are at least 3 described species in Leptinus.[2][3]

## Species

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* Leptinus americanus LeConte, 1866
* Leptinus occidentamericanus Peck, 1982
* Leptinus orientamericanus Peck, 1982

## References

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1. ^ BugGuide
2. ^ "Leptinus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
3. ^ "Leptinus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

* 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.

## 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.
* Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
* Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Taxon identifiers

Leptinus|

* Wikidata: Q15635937
* Wikispecies: Leptinus
* BioLib: 5366
* BOLD: 458487
* BugGuide: 512844
* CoL: 8VRSC
* EoL: 2654521
* Fauna Europaea: 121122
* Fauna Europaea (new): 1fd0ab1c-3564-4734-be93-e771d96b4249
* GBIF: 4290433
* iNaturalist: 456846
* IRMNG: 1294495
* ITIS: 113813
* NBN: NHMSYS0001718810
* NCBI: 460605
* Open Tree of Life: 773712
* Plazi: 806587D1-4F5D-FFF6-FF26-9C5A130BB6AD

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