Gehringia Darlington, 1933

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 309

Genus Gehringia Darlington, 1933

Gehringia Darlington, 1933b: 110. Type species: Gehringia olympica Darlington, 1933 by original designation. Etymology. From the surname of Dr. John George Gehring [1857-1932] of Bethel, Maine, from whom Darlington was collecting "on shares" when he secured his specimens on Olympic Mountains. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Gehring came to Bethel at 30 and eventually opened a clinic for the treatment of persons with nervous disorders. Dr. Gehring and his “inn” were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick’s The Master of the Inn. The name is feminine.

Diversity.

One species in western North America.

Identification.

The species was covered in Lindroth’s (1961a: 4-5) monograph on the carabids of Canada and Alaska.