Piestus rugosus

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 rugosus

Name

Piestus rugosus Sharp, 1876: 407

• Type locality: AMAZONAS: Reserva Ducke.
• Holotype: BMNH, ♀, Sharp Coll. 1905-313.

Synonymy

• Piestus rugosus Sharp, 1876: 407 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 (distribution); Herman, 2001b: 1794 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) rugosus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Trachypiestus) rugosus — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 294 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Guyana, Ecuador (Sucumbios), Peru (Cusco), Bolivia (Cochabamba), Brazil (Pará).

References

Primary references

• Sharp, D. 1876. Contribution to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera – Staphylinidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 27–424. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 407]

Additional references

• Asenjo, A., Irmler, U., Klimaszewski, J., Herman, L.H. & Chandler, D.S. 2013. A complete checklist with new records and geographical distribution of the rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Brazil. Insecta mundi 0277: 1–419. Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [distribution, locality records: p. 148]
• 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, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 549, figs. 54, 101, 244, 245, 286]