Piestus mexicanus

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 mexicanus

Name

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Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835: 130

  • Type locality: ‘Mexique’.
  • Syntype: BMNH, ♀, ex. coll. Chevrolat.

Synonymy

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  • Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835: 130 [original combination]; Erichson, 1840: 836 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 30 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1887: 714 [characters, distribution]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution]; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 208 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37 [distribution]
    • Piestus (Piestus) mexicanus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 287 [distribution]
  • Piestus alternans Sharp, 1887: 714 [original description, type locality: ‘Panama, David in Chiriqui’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1788 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012 536]
    • Piestus (Piestus) alternans — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 287 [distribution]

Native distribution areas

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Mexico (Tamaulipas, Durango, San Luís Potosí, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Belize (Cayo), Guatemala (Zacapa, Escuintla), Nicaragua (Granada), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, San José, Cartago, Puntarenas), Panama (Chiriquí, Panamá), Colombia (Boyacá), Honduras, Peru, Brazil, West Indies. [Navarrete-Heredia et al. (2002) consider Brazil and West Indies as doubtful distributions].

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