Piestus aper

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa 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]

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