Piestus minutus

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 minutus

Name

Piestus minutus Erichson, 1840: 834

• Type locality: 'Columbia'.
• Lectotype: ZMHB, ♂. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 528]

Synonymy

• Piestus minutus Erichson, 1840: 834 [original description]; Fauvel, 1864: 27 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1876: 407 [note, distribution]; Sharp, 1887: 713 [note, distribution]; Fauvel, 1901: 71 [distribution]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution]; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 208 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) minutus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 291 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus nigrator Fauvel, 1902: 24 [original description, type locality: ‘Amazones: Pebas’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 528]
  • Piestus (Piestus) nigrator — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 291 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Mexico (Nayarit), Belize (Orange Walk), Guatemala (Alta Verapaz, Izabal, Escuintla), El Salvador (Usulatán), Honduras (Atlántida), Nicaragua (Granada, Río San Juan), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Heredia, San José, Cartago, Puntarenas), Panama (Chiriquí, Veraguas, Colón, Panamá, Darién), Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad), Colombia (Magdalena, Amazonas), Venezuela (Aragua), Guyana, French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Sucumbios, Pichincha, Napo, Pastaza), Peru (Cusco, Madre de Dios), Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Goiás, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay (Guairá), Argentina (Tucumán), Mexico (Tabasco), Cuba, Galápagos Islands (Santa Cruz).

References

Primary references

• Erichson, W.F. 1840. Zweiter Band. Pp. 401–954. In: Genera et Species Staphylinorum, Insectorum Coleopterorum Familiae. Berlin: F.H. Morin, 954 pp. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 834]
• 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., lectotype, material, diagnosis, distribution, remarks: p. 528, figs. 34, 82, 202, 203, 267]

Additional references

• 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. 425]