Piestus validus

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 validus

Name

Piestus validus Sharp, 1876: 404

• Type locality: AMAZONAS: Manaus.

Synonymy

• Piestus validus Sharp, 1876: 404 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 101 (distribution); Herman, 2001: 1795 [distribution]; Caron et al., 2008: 6 [mention]; Caron et al., 2012: 520 [redescription, distribution]; Asenjo et al., 2013: 149 [distribution]
  • Piestus (Zirophorus) validus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1951: 6 [characters, distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 283 [characters, distribution]

Native distribution areas

Colombia (Meta), Venezuela (Carabobo, Aragua), Ecuador (Napo, Pastaza, Loja), Peru (Junín, Huánuco, Cusco, Madre de Dios), Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba), Brazil, French Guiana.

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. 404]

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. 149]
• 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, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 520, figs. 25, 72, 184, 185, 259]
• 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. 426]