Name - Leptus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:57422 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Leptus Latreille 1796

• Leptus Latreille 1795

• Leptus Latr. 1796

• Leptus Duftschmid 1825

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

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Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Description of Leptus (Leptus) cameroonicus sp. nov. and first record of Charletonia braunsi (Oudemans, 1910) from Cameroon (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae), with new metric and meristic data for some African Leptus.
• A new species of larval Leptus (Leptus) (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) from Brazil with list of host-parasite associations betweenLeptus and arthropods in America.
• First record of Leptus spp. (Acari: Erythraeidae) parasitizing Scaptia (Lepnia) spp. (Diptera: Tabanidae).
• New Host Data and Distribution for an Ectoparasitic Larva of Leptus1 at Tamaulipas, Mexico.
• The first record of parasitic mite, Leptus sp. (Acari: Erythraeidae) associated with a necrophagous fly, Chrysomya villeneuvi Patton, 1922 (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

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