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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Staphyliniformia » Staphylinoidea » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Crab-like Rove Beetles (Tachyporinae)

Subfamily Tachyporinae - Crab-like Rove Beetles

Representative Images

I think it's Tachyporus... - Tachyporus Rove Beetle - Tachinus corticinus Kind of small arthropod (nymph?) - Tachyporus Tachinus sp. - Tachinus Crab-like Rove Beetle - Sepedophilus Staphylinidae, Crab-like Rove Beetle - Sepedophilus Tachinus subterraneus? - Tachinus subterraneus Coproporus? - Coproporus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Tachyporinae (Crab-like Rove Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

see (1); Mycetoporini elevated to subfamily

Explanation of Names

Tachyporinae MacLeay 1825

Numbers

>1,200 spp. in 36 genera of 4 tribes total(2)

Works Cited

1.Tachyporinae revisited: phylogeny, evolution, and higher classification based on morphology...
Yamamoto S. 2021. Biology 10, 323, 156 pp.
2.Catalogue of Life
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 12 September, 2005 - 8:56am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov, NickBedard
Last updated 29 November, 2024 - 6:51pm

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