Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Piestus minutus
escarabajo
Saprophagous; transition, agriculture and evergreen shrub zone; January–June; beating, in rotting avocado seeds, under bark, malaise traps.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Staphylinoidea
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Piestus
Species
minutus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Cryptogenic
- Erichson, W.F. (1840) Genera et species Staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae. Berlin: F. H. Morin.
- Peck, S.B. Kukalová-Peck, J. (1990) Origin and biogeography of the beetles (Coleoptera) of the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Can. J. Zool. 68(8): 1617-1638.
- Peck, S.B. (2006) The Beetles of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera) NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 314 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Piestus minutus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=6806. Accessed 3 November 2026.