Piestus capricornis

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 capricornis

Name

Piestus capricornis Laporte, 1835: 129

• Type locality: Cayenne.

Synonymy

• Piestus capricornis Laporte, 1835: 129 [original combination]; Erichson, 1840: 833; Fauvel, 1864: 22; Fleutiaux & Sallé, 1889: 382; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Herman, 2001: 1789
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) capricornis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6; Blackwelder, 1943: 50; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 8; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 284
• Piestus capricornis variety muticus Fauvel, 1902: 22; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Herman, 2001: 1790
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) capricornis variety muticus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 8; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 284
• Piestus frontalis Sharp, 1876: 405 [new synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 513]
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) frontalis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 7; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 284

Native distribution areas

Guadeloupe, Peru (Loreto), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia), Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana.

References

Primary references

• Laporte [de Castelnau] F.L.N.C. 1835. Études entomologiques, ou description d’insectes nouveaux, et observations sur la synonymie. Première partie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils, 159 pp., 4 pls. [original description: p. 129]
• 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.  [syn. nov., material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 513, figs. 17, 64, 109, 119, 166, 167, 253]