Species Tachyura vivax - Elaphropus vivax

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

Lots of small carabids left - Tachyura vivax

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 Tachyura

No Taxon (subgenus Barytachys)

Species vivax (Elaphropus vivax)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

≡Elaphropus vivax

Explanation of Names

Tachyura vivax (LeConte 1848)

Size

2.4‒2.9 mm(1)

Identification

Holotype

Range

e.NA (NS‒s.ON to FL‒TX)(2)

Habitat

river banks, lake shores, around marshes, ponds, usually on coarse sandy silt soils(1)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.

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

Contributed by Tim Moyer on 16 August, 2010 - 2:49pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 1 July, 2025 - 2:55am

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