Ocyplanus

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: Ocyplanus
Species: O. brevicollis – O. formicarius – O. guineanus – O. megalops – O. rotundiceps

Name

Ocyplanus Fauvel, 1899: 43

• Type species: Ocyplanus formicarius Fauvel, 1899, designated by Fenyes, 1918: 24.

Synonymy

• Ocyplanus Fauvel, 1899: 43 [original description]; Wasmann, 1916 [key]; Seevers, 1965: 278 [redescription, catalogue of species]; Jacobson & Kistner, 1974: 80 [redescription of the genus]; Jacobson & Kistner, 1983: 27 [redescription of the genus, key to species]
• Dorylonia Wasmann, 1904: 635 [= Wasmann, 1902: 91, nomen nudum; synonymized by Fenyes, 1920: 268]
  • Type species: Dorylonia laticeps Wasmann, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Fauvel, A. 1899. Sur les genres nouveaux Derema et Ocyplanus. In A. Raffray and A. Fauvel, Genres et espèces de Staphylinides nouveaux d’Afrique. Revue d’Entomologie 18: 41–44. BHL [original description: p. 43]