Piestus

Piestus
Piestus extimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Staphylinidae
Subfamily:Piestinae
Genus:Piestus
Gravenhorst, 1806

Piestus is a genus of flat rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Piestus.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These 21 species belong to the genus Piestus:

  • Piestus angularis Fauvel, 1864 g
  • Piestus aper Sharp, 1876 g
  • Piestus buquetii Fauvel, 1864 g
  • Piestus capricornis Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 g
  • Piestus chullachaqui Pérez, Rodríguez & Asenjo, 2017 g
  • Piestus extimus Sharp, 1887 i c g b
  • Piestus fronticornis (Dalman, 1821) g
  • Piestus fulvipes Erichson, 1840 g
  • Piestus heterocephalus Fauvel, 1902 g
  • Piestus lacordairei Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 g
  • Piestus longicornis (Lacordaire, 1833) g
  • Piestus longipennis Fauvel, 1864 g
  • Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835 g
  • Piestus minutus Erichson, 1840 g
  • Piestus penicillatus (Dalman, 1821) i c g
  • Piestus pennicornis Fauvel, 1864 g
  • Piestus pygmaeus Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 g
  • Piestus spinosus (Fabricius, 1801) g
  • Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst, 1806 g
  • Piestus surrufus Caron, 2012 g
  • Piestus validus Sharp.These, 1876 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Piestus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Piestus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  3. 1 2 "Piestus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. 1 2 "Piestus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.

Further reading

  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • Brunke, A.; Marshall, S. (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys. 75. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767.
  • Frank, J.H.; Ahn, K.J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history,". Zookeys. 107: 1–98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651.
  • Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Chandler, D.; Savard, K.; et al. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys. 22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.
  • Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Li, A.; Savard, K. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys. 22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

  • Media related to Piestus at Wikimedia Commons


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