Piestus longicornis

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 longicornis

Name

Piestus heterocephalus (Lacordaire, 1833: 65)

• Type locality: ‘Cayenne’.

Synonymy

• Zirophorus longicornis Lacordaire, 1833: 65 [original description]
  • Piestus longicornis — Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution]; Caron et al., 2012: 564 [species inquirendae]

Native distribution areas

French Guiana.

References

Primary references

• Lacordaire, J.T. 1833. Essai sur les coléoptères de la Guyane Francaise. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 2: 35–94. [original description: p. 65]

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.  [species inquirendae, distribution, remarks: p. 564]