Piestus fronticornis

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 fronticornis

Name

Piestus fronticornis (Dalman, 1821: 373)

• Type locality: Kalkoen.
• Syntype: NHRS, sex undetermined.

Synonymy

• Zirophorus fronticornis Dalman, 1821: 373 [original description]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Herman, 2001: 1791; Caron et al., 2008: 3
  • [synonym of Piestus bicornis] — Laporte, 1835: 126, 128; Erichson, 1840: 832; Fauvel, 1864: 20; Sharp, 1887: 712; Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6; Blackwelder, 1944: 100; Herman, 2001: 1789; Newton et al., 2005: 69
  • [revalidated as Piestus fronticornis] — Caron et al., 2012: 519

Native distribution areas

Nicaragua (Granada, Rio San Juan), Guatemala (Guatemala), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, San José, Limón, Puntarenas), Panama (Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Veraguas, Colón, Panamá, Darién), Colombia (Cundinamarca, Valle del Cauca), French Guiana (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Cayenne), Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Pastaza), Brazil (Amazonas, Amapá, Pará), Peru.

References

Primary references

• Dalman, J.W. 1821. Nya genera och species af Insecter. Kongelige Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 1821: 372–387. [original description: p. 373]
• 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.  [revalidation, material, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 519, figs. 24, 71, 110, 121, 122, 130, 133, 143, 154, 182, 183, 258]

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. 424]