Piestus penicillatus

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 penicillatus

Name

Piestus penicillatus (Dalman, 1821: 373)

• Type locality: ‘insula Guadeloupe’.
• Syntype: NHRS, ♂.

Synonymy

• Zirophorus penicillatus Dalman, 1821: 373 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Herman, 2001: 1791; Caron et al., 2008: 3
  • Piestus paenicillatus — Laporte, 1835: 129 [misspelling, as junior synonym of P. sulcatus]; Blackwelder, 1943: 46 [mention]
  • Piestus penicillatus — Erichson, 1840: 834 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 23 [characters, distribution]; Blackwelder, 1943: 46 [characters, distribution, notes]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1793: 373 [distribution]; NavarreteHeredia et al., 2002: 209 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) penicillatus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 288 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus erythropus Erichson, 1840: 834 [original description, type locality: ‘Cuba’]; Fauvel, 1864: 25 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1887: 713 [note: discussion about distribution]; Fauvel, 1902: 26 [note: discussion about distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1790 [distribution] [restored synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 530]
  • Piestus (Piestus) erythropus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 290 [characters, distribution]
    • [As synonym of P. penicillatus]: Blackwelder, 1943: 46; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 209 [error: Dalman, 1822]
• Trichocoryne striata Gray, 1832: 306, Fig. 5 [original description, type locality: ‘West Indies’]
  • [As junior synonym of P. erythropus]: Erichson, 1840: 834; Fauvel, 1864: 25; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7; Herman, 2001: 1790; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 209
  • [As junior synonym of P. penicillatus]: Blackwelder, 1943: 46; Blackwelder, 1944: 100. [Note: Name preoccupied by Zirophorus striatus Guérin-Méneville, 1829]

Native distribution areas

Mexico, Cuba (Pina del Río, La Habana, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo), Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe.

References

Primary references

• Dalman, J.W. 1821. Nya genera och species af Insecter. Kongelige Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 1821: 372–387. [original description: p. 373]
• 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. rest., material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 530, figs. 35, 83, 204, 205, 268]