Piestus pennicornis

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 pennicornis

Name

Piestus pennicornis Fauvel, 1864: 26

• Type locality: Colombie.
• Lectotype: IRSN, ♀. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 522]

Synonymy

• Piestus pennicornis Fauvel, 1864: 26 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001b: 1793 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) pennicornis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 289 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus plagiatus Fauvel, 1864: 26 [original description, type locality: ‘Nuovo-Friburgo, Brésil’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001b: 1793 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 522]
  • Piestus (Piestus) plagiatus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 289 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus rectus Sharp, 1876: 406 [original description, type locality: ‘Ega’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001b: 1794 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 522]
  • Piestus (Piestus) rectus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 288 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus pygialis Fauvel, 1902: 23 [original description, type locality: ‘Brésil: Blumenau’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1793 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 522]
  • Piestus (Piestus) pygialis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 288 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus surinamensis Bernhauer, 1928: 287 [original description, type locality: ‘Suriname’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1795 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 522]
  • Piestus (Piestus) surinamensis — Scheerpeltz 1933: 994 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 289 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Nicaragua (Matagalpa, Granada), Panama (Colón, Veraguas), Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Ecuador (Sucumbios, Napo), Peru (Cusco), Bolivia (Cochabamba), Brazil (Rondônia, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Caazapá),Guyana, French Guiana.

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. 26]
• 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, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 522, figs. 27, 74, 75, 123, 124, 188, 189, 260]

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]