Piestinae

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
Genera (7 + 3†): †Eopiestus – Eupiestus – Hypotelus – †Paleosiagonium – Parasiagonum – Piestoneus – Piestus – Prognathoides – †Propiestus – Siagonium

Name

Piestinae Erichson, 1839: 31

• Type genus: Piestus Gravenhorst, 1806

Synonymy

• Piestini Erichson, 1839: 31 [original name]
• Prognathites Blanchard, 1845: 290
  • Type genus: Prognathus Berthold, 1827 [as Prognata, incorrect subsequent spelling of type genus name not in prevailing usage; syn. of Siagonium Kirby & Spence, 1815].
• Siagoniini Crowson, 1980: 289 [unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1)]
  • Type genus: Siagonium Kirby & Spence, 1815

References

Primary references

• Erichson, W.F. 1839. Erster Band. Pp. 1–400. In: Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae. Berlin: F.H. Morin, viii + 954 pp. + 5 pls. BHL Reference page.  [see p. 31]

Additional references

• Bortoluzzi, S., Caron, E. & Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. 2017. Revision and phylogeny of Hypotelus Erichson: a Neotropical genus of minute rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae). Zootaxa 4273(4): 451–487. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.1. Reference page. 
• Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. III. Oxyteline group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (265 ): 1067–1806.