Piestus sulcatus

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 sulcatus

Name

Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst, 1806: 224

• Type locality: ‘Brasilia’.
• Lectotype: ZMHB, ♂, Nr. 6812. [designated in Caron et al., 2012: 533]

Synonymy

• Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst, 1806: 224 [original description]; Erichson, 1840: 835 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel 1864: 30 [note, distribution]; Sharp, 1876: 407 [note, distribution]; Blackwelder, 1943: 44 [characters, distribution, notes]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution]; Blackwelder, 1952: 309 [mention]; Herman, 2001: 1795 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Piestus) sulcatus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 286 [distribution]
• Piestus sanctae-catharinae Bernhauer, 1906: 193 [original description, type locality: ‘Brasilia (Santa Catharina)’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 533]
  • Piestus (Piestus) sanctae-catharinae — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 286 [characters, distribution]
  • Piestus sanctaecatharinae — Herman, 2001: 1794 [distribution]
• Piestus condei Wendeler, 1955: 187 [original description, type locality: ‘Brasilien, Espirito Santo, Sta. Theresa’]; Herman, 2001: 1790 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012: 533]

Native distribution areas

Nicaragua (Rio San Juan), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, Cartago, Limón, Puntarenas), Panama (Veraguas, Colón, Panamá, Darién), Guadeloupe, Dominica (Saint David), Martinique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Saint Vincent), Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad), Colombia (Choco), Venezuela (Aragua), Guyana (Upper Demerara-Berbice), Suriname (Marowijne), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni and Cayenne), Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Sucumbios, Pichincha, Napo, Cotopaxi and Pastaza), Peru (Loreto, San Martín, Huancavelica, Cusco, Madre de Dios, Junín, Pasco), Bolivia (Cochabamba, Santa Cruz), and Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Bahia, Goiás, Distrito Federal, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina), Paraguay, Galápagos Islands (Isabela, Santa Cruz).

References

Primary references

• Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1806. Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. Gottingae: Henricus Dieterich, 236 + [12] pp. [original description: p. 224]
• 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., lectotype, material, diagnosis, distribution, remarks: p. 533, figs. 5–10, 106–108, 113–115, 131, 134, 139, 149, 153, 212–214, 272]

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. 425]