Piestus paradoxus

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 paradoxus

Name

Piestus paradoxus Bernhauer, 1917: 45

• Type locality: ‘Caracas’.
• Holotype: FMNH, ♀, M. Bernhauer Collection.

Synonymy

• Piestus paradoxus Bernhauer, 1917: 45 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1793 [distribution]; Caron et al., 2012: 544
  • Piestus (Piestus) paradoxus — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 994 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Elytropiestus) paradoxus — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 294 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Venezuela (Aragua).

References

Primary references

• Bernhauer, M. 1917. Neue Arten der Gattungen Piestus, Leptochirus und Conosoma aus Südamerika. Neue Beiträge zur systematischen Insektenkunde 1: 45–48, 49–53. [original description: p. 45]

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.  [material, diagnosis, distribution, remarks: p. 544, figs. 48, 49, 96, 127, 234, 235, 282]