Piestus spinosus

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 spinosus

Name

Piestus spinosus (Fabricius, 1801: 93)

• Type locality: America meridionali.
• Syntype: ZMUC, ♂.

Synonymy

• Cucujus spinosus Fabricius, 1801: 93 [original description]
  • Piestus spinosus — Laporte, 1835: 128; Erichson, 1840: 832; Fauvel, 1864: 22; Sharp, 1876: 405; Blackwelder, 1944: 101; Herman, 2001: 1794; Newton et al., 2005: 37
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) spinosus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 993; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 283
• Piestus oxytelinus Perty, 1830: 33 [new synonym in Erichson, 1840: 832]

Native distribution areas

Venezuela (Bolívar), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Napo, Pastaza), Peru (Loreto, Huánuco, Lima, Junín, Ucayali, Cusco), Bolivia (Cochabamba and Santa Cruz) and Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Mato Grosso), Colombia, Suriname, Guyana.

References

Primary references

• Fabricius, J.C. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus II. Impensis bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae, 687 pp. Online. Reference page.  [original description: p. 93]

Additional references

• 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.  [material, diagnosis, distribution, remarks: p. 515, figs. 19, 69, 120, 170, 171, 254]
• 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. 425]