Piestus angularis

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 angularis

Name

Piestus angularis Fauvel, 1864: 31

• Type locality: ‘Brésil (Santa-Catharina)’.
• Holotype: IRSN, ♀.

Synonymy

• Piestus angularis Fauvel, 1864: 31 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1788 [distribution]; NavarreteHeredia et al., 2002: 208 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) angularis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Trachypiestus) angularis — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 292 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus crassicornis Sharp, 1887: 716 [original description, type locality: ‘Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4000 to 6000 feet’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1790 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 547]
  • Piestus (Piestus) crassicornis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Trachypiestus) crassicornis — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 292 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Mexico (Veracruz), Belize (Cayo), Guatemala (Zacapa), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Heredia, San José, Limón, Puntarenas), Panama (Chiriquí), Suriname (Marowijne, Para), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Napo, Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Cusco), Bolivia (Cochabamba), Brazil (Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Alto Paraná), Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia.

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. 31]
• 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., material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 547, figs. 52, 99, 240, 241, 284]

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. 424]