Gapia gigantea

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: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Lomechusini
Subtribus: Myrmedoniina
Genus: Gapia
Species: Gapia gigantea

Name

Gapia gigantea (Wasmann, 1916: 97)

• Type locality: D.R. of CONGO: St. Gabriel near Kisangani.

Synonymy

• Acanthonia gigantea Wasmann, 1916: 97 [original combination]
  • Gapia gigantea — Blackwelder, 1952: 167

Native distribution areas

Angola, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia.

References

Primary references

• Wasmann, E. 1916. Neue dorylophile Staphyliniden Afrikas (Col.). (217. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Myrmekophilen u. Termitophilen.). Entomologische Mitteilungen 5(1–8): 92–109, 134-147. BHL [original description: p. 97]
• Blackwelder, R.E. 1952. The generic names of the beetle family Staphylinidae, with an essay on genotypy. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 200: i–iv, 1–483. hdl: 10088/30426. BHL. Reference page.  [comb. nov.: p. 167]