Leptochirus

Leptochirus
Leptochirus javanus from Sumatra. Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subfamily:	Osoriinae
Tribe:	Leptochirini
Genus:	Leptochirus Germar, 1824

Leptochirus is a genus of beetles in the family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles.

Species

• Leptochirus brunneoniger
• Leptochirus costaricensis Bernhauer 1942
• Leptochirus javanus Laporte de Castelnau
• Leptochirus laevis Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
• Leptochirus laeviventris Fauvel 1902
• Leptochirus marina
• Leptochirus maxi
• Leptochirus maxillosus
• Leptochirus mery
• Leptochirus milton
• Leptochirus molossus Sharp, 1882–1887
• Leptochirus scoriaceus Germar, 1824

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References

1. Universal Biological Indexer
2. Encyclopedia of life
3. Catalogue of life
4. Zipcodezoo
5. Gwannon Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine

• Asenjo, A.; Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. 2013: Revision of the neotropical subgenus Tropiochirus of the genus Leptochirus Germar 1824 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae). Journal of natural history, 47(19-20): 1257–1285. doi : 10.1080/00222933.2012.763053
• D.N. Biswas & T. Sengupta ^[1]

1. On Leptochirus (Strongylochirus) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from India and Burma