Genus Tachys

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Tachys misellus LaFerté-Sénectère - Tachys misellus

Small ground beetle at blacklight - Tachys

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 Tachys

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Paratachys used to be treated as a subgenus of Tachys, e.g. in (1)

Explanation of Names

Tachys Dejean 1821

Numbers

11 spp. in our area, 35 total(1)

Range

all zoogeographical regions; ⅔ of the spp. in the Holarctic region(1)

Habitat

typically halophilic(2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

2.	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.

Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 14 May, 2010 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 December, 2024 - 3:11pm

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