Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Tachyura

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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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
nearctic spp. formerly treated in Elaphropus Motschulsky 1839 actually belong to Tachyura
Explanation of Names
Tachyura Motschulsky 1862
Numbers
~30 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area (all but a couple of adventive sp. are in the subg. Barytachys), ~350 spp. in ~10 subgenera worldwide(1)(2)
Range
worldwide; throughout the US and so. Canada(1)