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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Trechinae » Trechitae » Tachyini » Tachyta

Genus Tachyta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · See Also · Works Cited
Tiny Beetle - Tachyta small, black, underbark carabid - Tachyta angulata small black carabid - Tachyta angulata Tachyta sp. - Tachyta thinking Tachyta - Tachyta parvicornis Unknown Carabid - Tachyta Tachyta sp.? - Tachyta Tachyta falli
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Trechinae
Supertribe Trechitae
Tribe Tachyini
Genus Tachyta
Explanation of Names
Tachyta Kirby 1837
Numbers
5 spp. in our area, all in the nominate subgenus; 24 spp. in 2 subgenera worldwide(1)(2)(3)
Size
1.8–3.3 mm(4)
Identification
world revision in(1)
Range
worldwide in boreal, temperate, and tropical areas; most of NA(5)
Habitat
forests; adults under bark of dead trees(5)
See Also
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Works Cited
1.Studies on the Subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part III: Systematics, Phylogeny, and Zoogeography of....
Erwin, T.L. 1975. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, No. 208. 68 pp.
2.Carabidae of the World
3.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
4.Taxonomic review of New World Tachyina (Coleoptera, Carabidae): descriptions of new genera, subgenera, and species, with ...
Olivia F. Boyd, Terry L. Erwin. 2016. ZooKeys 626: 87-123.
5.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by tom murray on 2 August, 2007 - 9:44am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 17 August, 2017 - 6:49am

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