Kaliwatan sa bakukangon ang Piestus sulcatus.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst ni adtong 1806.^[2] Ang Piestus sulcatus sakop sa kahenera nga Piestus, ug kabanay nga Staphylinidae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• Nicaragua
• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Guyana
• Surinam
• Guyane
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Bolibiya
• Brasil
• Paraguay
• Cuba
• Guadeloupe
• Dominica
• Martinique
• St. Lucia
• Saint Vincent
• Grenada
• Trinidad (pulo sa Trinidad ug Tobago)
• Galapagos Islands

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 53292395. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Gravenhorst, J. L. C. (1806) Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. , H. Dieterich, Gottingae [Göttingen]. xvi + 248 pp., 1 pl.
3. ↑ Newton A.F. (2019). StaphBase: Staphyliniformia world catalog database (version Nov 2018). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.