Piestus niger

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 niger

Name

Piestus niger Fauvel, 1864: 24

• Type locality: Mexico.
• Holotype: IRSN, ♂.

Synonymy

• Piestus niger Fauvel, 1864: 24 [original description]; Sharp, 1887: 712 [distribution]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution]; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 209 [distribution]; Caron et al., 2012: 528
  • Piestus (Piestus) niger — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 289 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Puebla), Guatemala (Guatemala), Costa Rica (Guanacaste), Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua.

References

Primary references

• Fauvel, A. 1864. Études sur les Staphylinides de l’Amérique centrale, principalement du Mexique. Notices Entomologiques 2: 3–62. [original description: p. 24]

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.  [lectotype, material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 528, figs. 33, 81, 200, 201, 266]