Piestus pygmaeus

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 pygmaeus

Name

Piestus pygmaeus Laporte, 1835: 130

• Type locality: Colombie.
• Lectotype: BMNH, sex undetermined, Sharp Coll./1905.-313. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 523]

Synonymy

• Piestus pygmaeus Laporte, 1835: 130 [original combination]; Erichson, 1840: 835 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 29 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1876: 407 [distribution]; Sharp, 1887: 714 [distribution]; Blackwelder, 1943: 49 [characters, distribution, notes]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Herman, 2001b: 1793 [distribution]; NavarreteHeredia et al., 2002: 209 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37 [distribution]
  • Piestus(Piestus) pygmaeus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 994 [mention]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 290 [characters, distribution]
• Piestus rufipennis Fleutiaux & Sallé, 1889: 382 [cited as synonym of P. pygmaeus Laporte, 1835] - [As synonym of P. pygmaeus: Blackwelder, 1943: 49, 562; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Newton et al., 2005: 69 [Note: Nomen nudum (Newton et al. 2005)]

Native distribution areas

South & Central America.

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]

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.  [lectotype, material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 523, figs. 28, 76, 190, 191, 261]