Taxonavigation

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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 bicornis

Name

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Piestus bicornis (Olivier, 1811: 615)

  • Type locality: not given.
  • Neotype: FMNH, sex undetermined, 15.544. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 518]

Synonymy

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  • Oxytelus bicornis Olivier, 1811: 615 [original description]
    • Piestus bicornis — Laporte, 1835, 126 [mention], 128 [characters, distribution]; Erichson, 1840: 831 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 19 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1876: 405 [mention, distribution]; Fauvel, 1901: 70 [mention]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution, error: species attributed to Laporte, 1834: 128]; Herman, 2001: 1789 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37, 69 [distribution, synonyms]; Caron et al. 2008: 6 [mention]
    • Zirophorus bicornis — Sharp, 1887: 712 [distribution]; Sharp & Muir, 1912 [characters of aedeagus]
    • Piestus (Zirophorus) bicornis — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 6 [characters, distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 282 [characters, distribution]
  • Zirophorus striatus Guérin-Méneville, 1829: pl. 9, fig. 12 [new synonym in Erichson, 1840: 832]
  • Piestus bicornis variety oxytelinus Laporte, 1835: 128
    • Piestus oxytelinus — Laporte, 1835: 128 [not an available name, but rather a misidentification of P. oxytelinus Perty, 1830, which is a junior synonym of P. spinosus]

Native distribution areas

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Costa Rica (Cartago, Limón), Panama (Panamá), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Meta, Putumayo), Venezuela (Carabobo), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Sucumbios, Napo, Pastaza, Morona-Santiago), Peru (Loreto, San Martín, Huánuco, Junín, Cusco, Madre de Dios), Bolivia (La Paz, Beni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz), Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso), Paraguay, Nicaragua, Suriname, Guyana, Argentina.

References

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Primary references

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  • Olivier, G-A. 1811: Encyclopédie méthodique, ou par ordre de matières; par une société de gens de lettres, de savans et d’artistes; précédé d’un vocabulaire universel, servant de table pou tout l’ouvrage, ornée des portraits de Mm. Diderot & d’Alembert, premiers éditeurs de l’Encyclopédie. Tome huitième. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux. Insectes. Paris: H. Agasse, 722 pp. [original description: p. 615]

Additional references

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