Epicaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Pselaphinae
Supertribus: Pselaphitae
Tribus: Ctenistini
Genus: Epicaris
Species: E. bezdeki – E. crassicornis – E. ventralis

Name

Epicaris Reitter, 1882: 202

• Type species: Tetracis ventralis Raffray, 1882, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Taphrophorus Schaufuss, 1882: 350 [synonymized by Raffray, 1904: 361]
  • Type species: Taphrophorus doriae Schaufuss, 1882, fixed by subsequent designation of Jeannel, 1949: 192.

References

Primary references

• Reitter, E. 1882. Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Clavigeriden und Pselaphiden. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 20 [1881]: 177–211. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 202]

Additional references

• Hlaváč, P. & Baňař, P. 2014. A review of the Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Socotra Island. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (supplementum): 121–132. PDF Reference page.  [diagnosis, redescription, remarks: p. 125]