Leptusa pusio (Casey)

Ferro, Michael L., Gimmel, Matthew L., Harms, Kyle E. & Carlton, Christopher E., 2012, Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, Insecta Mundi 2012 (259), pp. 1-58 : 20

Leptusa pusio (Casey) ( Fig. 32 )

Range: Ohio, Tennessee. Habitat: forest leaf litter. Collection Method: sifting/Berlese leaf litter, and collected from dead wood with emergence chamber. Biology: unknown. Present Study: signifi- cantly higher abundance in CWD5, primary forest, and spring. References: Downie and Arnett 1996; Gusarov 2003e; Park et al. 2010.

Figures

Figures 31–36. Habitus images. 31) Leptusa gimmeli Park and Carlton (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). 32) Leptusa pusio (Casey) (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). 33) Leptusa sp. (Casey) (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). 34) Myllaena sp. (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). 35) Dasycerus sp. (Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). 36) Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson) (Staphylinidae: Osoriinae).