Piestus aper

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 aper

Name

Piestus aper Sharp, 1876: 408

• Type locality: AMAZONAS: Ilha de Curari UIC.
• Lectotype: BMNH, sex undetermined.

Synonymy

• Piestus aper Sharp, 1876: 408 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 12 [mention]; Herman, 2001: 1788 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) aper — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Trachypiestus) asper — Scheerpeltz, 1952: 292 [emendation of P. aper Sharp, 1876, characters, distribution]
  • Piestus asper — Herman, 2001: 12 [note: unjustified emendation by Scheerpeltz (1952)]; Herman, 2001: 1788 [mention]
• Piestus (Trachypiestus) schadei Scheerpeltz, 1952: 295 [original description, type locality: ‘Villa Rica (Paraguay)’] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 546]
  • Piestus schadei — Herman, 2001: 1794 [distribution]

Native distribution areas

Panama (Bocas del Toro, Colón), Colombia (Amazonas), Suriname (Marowijne), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Peru (Loreto, Cusco, Madre de Dios), Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso), Paraguay (Guairá and Itapúa), Argentina.

References

Primary references

• Sharp, D. 1876. Contribution to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera – Staphylinidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 27–424. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 408]
• 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, diagnosis, distribution, remarks: p. 546, figs. 51, 98, 238, 239]

Additional references

• Asenjo, A., Irmler, U., Klimaszewski, J., Herman, L.H. & Chandler, D.S. 2013. A complete checklist with new records and geographical distribution of the rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Brazil. Insecta mundi 0277: 1–419. Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [distribution, locality records: p. 145]