Leptochromus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: Leptochromini
Genus: Leptochromus
Species (6): L. agilis – L. bicolor – L. fulvescens – L. laselva – L. mexicanus – †L. palaeomexicanus
Name

Leptochromus Motschulsky, 1855: 12

Type species: Leptochromus fulvescens Motschulsky, 1855, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Hecotus Sharp, 1887 [Synonymized with Leptochromus by Csiki, 1919]
Type species: Hecotus mexicanus Sharp, 1887, by subsequent designation by Franz, in Newton & Franz (1998: 154).

References
Primary references

Motschoulsky, V. de 1855. Voyages; lettre de M. de Motschulsky a M. Ménétriés. Études Entomologiques 4: 8–25. [original description: p. 12]

Additional references

Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page. [diagnosis, characteristics, distribution, remarks: p. 53]
Lord, N.P., Carlton, C.E. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2014. A new species of Leptochromus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Costa Rica, with notes on morphology and natural history. Coleopterists bulletin 68(1): 119–125. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-68.1.119 Reference page. [Amended Key to Species of Leptochromus: p. 122]
Newton, A.F.; Franz, H. 1998: World catalog of the genera of Scydmaenidae (Coleoptera). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 68: 137–165.
O'Keefe, S.T. 1999: The Scydmaenidae of Costa Rica: I. Leptochromus Motschulsky, Eutheia Stephens, and Paracephennium gen. n. (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae). Koleopterologische rundschau, 69: 67–81.
O'Keefe, S.T. 2002: Revision of the Neotropical genus Leptochromus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae). Systematic entomology, 27: 211–234. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00179.x
Sharp 1887: Biol. Centr. Amer., Zool., Col., 2 (1), 70. [not seen]