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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Round Fungus Beetles (Leiodidae) » Platypsyllinae » Mouse Nest Beetles (Leptinus) » Leptinus americanus
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small blind beetle - Leptinus americanus
Copyright © 2012 Michael Skvarla

small blind beetle - Leptinus americanus
Ouachita National Forest, Roaring Branch Natural Area, Polk County, Arkansas, USA
October 28, 2012
Size: 2 mm
Extracted from leaf litter collected from a ridge top using Berlese extraction.

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Contributed by Michael Skvarla on 7 December, 2012 - 4:05pm
Last updated 10 December, 2012 - 1:18pm

Moved
Moved from Mouse Nest Beetles.
… v belov, 10 December, 2012 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… v belov, 7 December, 2012 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

tarsal formula?
Going by v's rule probably a teneb.
… Jeff Gruber, 7 December, 2012 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

 
didn't work this time... sorry
… v belov, 7 December, 2012 - 9:06pm login or register to post comments

 
L. americanus
This should be Leptinus americanus based on the ranges given by Peck (1982): "L. occidenamericanus in Western United States and Canada... in Eastern North America [s]ites west of the Mississippi River are L. americanus and those east of the Mississippi River are L. orientamericanus. In addition he reports a specimen of L. americanus from Washington Co., Arkansas, which is about 150 km north of where this specimen was collected.

Unless anyone knows of a more recent treatment of the genus. I got this reference out of American Beetles, so figured it was the most recent.

Peck, S.B. (1982) A review of the ectoparasitic Leptinus beetles of North America (Coleoptera: Leptinidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 60(7): 1517-1527.
… Michael Skvarla, 10 December, 2012 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

 
sure -- thanks again
… v belov, 10 December, 2012 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

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