Piestus bicornis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

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

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Piestinae
Genus: Piestus
Species: Piestus bicornis

Name

Piestus bicornis (Olivier, 1811: 615)

• Type locality: not given.
• Neotype: FMNH, sex undetermined, 15.544. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 518]

Synonymy

• Oxytelus bicornis Olivier, 1811: 615 [original description]
  • Piestus bicornis — Laporte, 1835, 126 [mention], 128 [characters, distribution]; Erichson, 1840: 831 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 19 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1876: 405 [mention, distribution]; Fauvel, 1901: 70 [mention]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution, error: species attributed to Laporte, 1834: 128]; Herman, 2001: 1789 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37, 69 [distribution, synonyms]; Caron et al. 2008: 6 [mention]
  • Zirophorus bicornis — Sharp, 1887: 712 [distribution]; Sharp & Muir, 1912 [characters of aedeagus]
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) bicornis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 6 [characters, distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 282 [characters, distribution]
• Zirophorus striatus Guérin-Méneville, 1829: pl. 9, fig. 12 [new synonym in Erichson, 1840: 832]
• Piestus bicornis variety oxytelinus Laporte, 1835: 128
  • Piestus oxytelinus — Laporte, 1835: 128 [not an available name, but rather a misidentification of P. oxytelinus Perty, 1830, which is a junior synonym of P. spinosus]

Native distribution areas

Costa Rica (Cartago, Limón), Panama (Panamá), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Meta, Putumayo), Venezuela (Carabobo), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Sucumbios, Napo, Pastaza, Morona-Santiago), Peru (Loreto, San Martín, Huánuco, Junín, Cusco, Madre de Dios), Bolivia (La Paz, Beni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso), Paraguay, Nicaragua, Suriname, Guyana, Argentina.

References

Primary references

• Olivier, G-A. 1811: Encyclopédie méthodique, ou par ordre de matières; par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d’artistes; précédé d’un vocabulaire universel, servant de table pou tout l’ouvrage, ornée des portraits de Mm. Diderot & d’Alembert, premiers éditeurs de l’Encyclopédie. Tome huitième. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux. Insectes. Paris: H. Agasse, 722 pp. [original description: p. 615]

Additional references

• Caron, E., Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. & Newton, A.F. 2012. Cladistic analysis and revision of Piestus Gravenhorst with remarks on related genera (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Piestinae). Invertebrate systematics 25(6): 490–585. DOI: 10.1071/IS10016 Reference page.  [neotype, material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 518, figs. 22, 23, 70, 150, 179–181, 257]
• Perez, L., Rodríguez, M. & Asenjo, A. 2017. A new Peruvian species and new records of the genus Piestus Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zootaxa 4303(3): 417–426. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.3.7. Reference page.  [records, note: p. 424]