Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Piestinae
Genus: Piestus
Species: Piestus mexicanus
Name
Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835: 130
- Type locality: ‘Mexique’.
- Syntype: BMNH , ♀, ex. coll. Chevrolat.
Synonymy
- Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835: 130 [original combination]; Erichson, 1840: 836 [characters, distribution]; Fauvel, 1864: 30 [characters, distribution]; Sharp, 1887: 714 [characters, distribution]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1792 [distribution]; Navarrete-Heredia et al., 2002: 208 [distribution]; Newton et al., 2005: 37 [distribution]
- Piestus (Piestus) mexicanus — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 7 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 287 [distribution]
- Piestus alternans Sharp, 1887: 714 [original description, type locality: ‘Panama, David in Chiriqui’]; Blackwelder, 1944: 100 [distribution]; Herman, 2001: 1788 [distribution] [New synonym in Caron et al., 2012 536]
- Piestus (Piestus) alternans — Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910: 6 [distribution]; Scheerpeltz, 1952: 287 [distribution]
Native distribution areas
Mexico (Tamaulipas, Durango, San Luís Potosí, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Belize (Cayo), Guatemala (Zacapa, Escuintla), Nicaragua (Granada), Costa Rica (Guanacaste, Alajuela, Heredia, San José, Cartago, Puntarenas), Panama (Chiriquí, Panamá), Colombia (Boyacá), Honduras, Peru, Brazil, West Indies. [Navarrete-Heredia et al. (2002) consider Brazil and West Indies as doubtful distributions].
References
Primary references
- Laporte [de Castelnau] F.L.N.C. 1835. Études entomologiques, ou description d’insectes nouveaux, et observations sur la synonymie. Première partie. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils, 159 pp., 4 pls. [original description: p. 130]
- 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, redescription, distribution, remarks: p. 536, figs. 40, 88, 218, 219, 274]
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]