Gehringia

Gehringia olympica
	Gehringia olympica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Psydrinae (but see text)
Tribe:	Gehringiini
Genus:	Gehringia; Darlington, 1933
Species:	G. olympica
Binomial name
	Gehringia olympica; Darlington, 1933

Gehringia olympica is a species of ground beetles (family Carabidae), the only species in the genus Gehringia.[1]

It is a rather unusual member of its family, a tiny shiny-black beetle with a few stout bristles, and is not found anywhere outside the Pacific Northwest of North America, from Montana and Oregon in the United States northwards to the North West Territories and Yukon in Canada. It inhabits mountain stream gravel banks and can locally be very common. The relationships of this distinct montane endemic have been long debated; variously, it was assigned to subfamily Psydrinae or Trechinae and here it is treated in the former.

The generic name of this species was coined by Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr. (1904-1983), in honour of his friend the physician John George Gehring (1857-1932).[2]

References

"Gehringia Darlington, 1933". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 27 Mar 2012.
Darlington jr., P J (1933). "A new tribe of Carabidae (Coleoptera) from western United States". The Pan-Pacific entomologist. 9: 110–114 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External Links

ToLweb: Gehringia olympica

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[1] "Gehringia Darlington, 1933". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 27 Mar 2012.

[2] Darlington jr., P J (1933). "A new tribe of Carabidae (Coleoptera) from western United States". The Pan-Pacific entomologist. 9: 110–114 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.