Leptomastax

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: Leptomastacini
Genus: Leptomastax
Species (25): L. besucheti – L. bipunctata – L. bisetosa – L. brachati – L. coquereli – L. cretica – L. david – L. delarouzei – L. hypogea – L. hyrcana – L. insularis – L. latipennis – L. loebli – L. mehadiensis1 – L. orousseti – L. piniphila – L. quadristriata – L. raymondi – L. rousi – L. scyrias – L. simonis – L. stussineri – L. syriaca – L. thriptica – L. vlascensis
Name

Leptomastax Pirazzoli, 1855: 3

Type species: Leptomastax hypogeum Pirazzoli, 1855, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Pylades Fairmaire, 1856: 526 [Synonymized with Leptomastax by Fairmaire, 1856]
Type species: Pylades coquereli Fairmaire, 1856, fixed by monotypy.
Pyladus Fairmaire, 1856: 179 [probably a misspelling of Pyladus]
Type species: Pyladus coquereli Fairmaire, 1856, fixed by monotypy.
Leptomastoides Karaman, 1962 [as subgenus of Leptomastax; nomen nudum, no type species designated; treated as synonym of Leptomastax by Castellini, 1996]

References
Primary references

Pirazzoli O. 1855. Coleopteri Italici. Genus novum Leptomastax. Forocornelii (Imola): Galeati, 5 pp. [original description: p. 3]

Additional references

Castellini, G. 1996: [Revision of the genus Leptomastax Pirazzoli, 1855 (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae).] Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (Grosseto), 15(supplement): 1–137.
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. 20]