Piestus

Piestus
Piestus extimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subfamily:	Piestinae
Genus:	Piestus Gravenhorst, 1806

Piestus is a genus of flat rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are more than 30 described species in Piestus.

Species

These 31 species belong to the genus Piestus:

• Piestus acuminatus
• Piestus angularis Fauvel, 1864
• Piestus aper Sharp, 1876
• Piestus boliviensis
• Piestus buquetii Fauvel, 1864
• Piestus capricornis Laporte de Castelnau, 1835
• Piestus chullachaqui Pérez, Rodríguez & Asenjo, 2017
• Piestus convexus
• Piestus ecuadorensis
• Piestus extimus Sharp, 1887
• Piestus formicinus
• Piestus foveolatus
• Piestus fronticornis (Dalman, 1821)
• Piestus fulvipes Erichson, 1840
• Piestus heterocephalus Fauvel, 1902
• Piestus imperfectus
• Piestus lacordairei Laporte de Castelnau, 1835
• Piestus longicornis (Lacordaire, 1833)
• Piestus longipennis Fauvel, 1864
• Piestus mexicanus Laporte, 1835
• Piestus minutus Erichson, 1840
• Piestus penicillatus (Dalman, 1821)
• Piestus pennicornis Fauvel, 1864
• Piestus pygmaeus Laporte de Castelnau, 1835
• Piestus serrufus
• Piestus similis
• Piestus spinosus (Fabricius, 1801)
• Piestus sulcatus Gravenhorst, 1806
• Piestus surrufus Caron, 2012
• Piestus termitis
• Piestus validus Sharp.These, 1876

Further reading

• 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. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.

External links

• Media related to Piestus at Wikimedia Commons