Piestus mexicanus

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 mexicanus

Name

Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835: 130

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

Synonymy

• 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

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].

References

Primary references

• Laporte [de Castelnau] F.L.N.C. 1835. Études entomologiques, ou description d’insectes nouveaux, et observations sur la synonymie. Première partie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils, 159 pp., 4 pls. [original description: p. 130]
• 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. 536, figs. 40, 88, 218, 219, 274]

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]