Leptopodidae

Leptopus marmoratus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leptopodoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Paraneoptera Superordo: Condylognatha Ordo: Hemiptera Subordo: Heteroptera Infraordo: Leptopodomorpha Superfamilia: Leptopodoidea

Familia: Leptopodidae
Subfamiliae (2): Leptopodinae - Leptosaldinae

Overview of genera: †Archaesalepta – †Cretaceomira – †Cretaleptus – Erianotus – Erianotoides – †Grimaldinia – Lahima – Leotichius – Leptopus – †Leptosalda – †Leptosaldinea – Martiniola – Patapius – Saldolepta – Valleriola

Name

Leptopodidae Brullé, 1836: 279 (as 'Leptopodiens')

• Type genus: Leptopus Latreille, 1809

Synonyms

• Palaeoleptidae

References

Primary references

• Brullé, A. 1836. Orthoptères et Hémiptères. in: Audouin, V. & Brullé, A. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Tome 9. Roret, Paris. 415 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Khazaei, Z., Polhemus, D.A. & Tahami, M.S. 2020. A new species of Leptopus (Heteroptera: Leptopodidae) from caves in Iran, with notes on other cavernicolous Iranian Heteroptera. Zootaxa 4763(2): 246–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.2.7 Reference page. 
• McKellar, R.C. & Engel, M.S. 2014. The first Mesozoic Leptopodidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha), from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Historical Biology 26(6): 702–709. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2013.838753 Reference page. 
• Popov, Yu.A. & Heiss, E. 2014. Grimaldinia pronotalis n.gen.,n.sp. from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera, Leptopodidae, Leptosaldinae). Zootaxa 3878(5): 444–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.5.2 Reference page. 
• Popov, Yu.A. & Heiss, E. 2016. A remarkable fossil leptosaldine bug from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha: Leptopodidae). Zootaxa 4137(2): 233–238. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.2.5. Reference page. 
• Vinokurov, N.N. 2012: Leptopus marusiki Vinokurov, a new species of the bug family Leptopodidae (Heteroptera) from Northern India. Entomological Review, 92(5): 590–592. DOI: 10.1134/S0013873812050120. Original Russian Text: Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 91(2): 242–244.

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