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Species Tachys potomaca

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Trechinae

Tribe Bembidiini

Subtribe Tachyina

Genus Tachys

No Taxon (subgenus Paratachys)

Species potomaca (Tachys potomaca)

Explanation of Names

Tachys potomaca (Erwin 1981)

Identification

Markedly reduced membranous wings, also characteristic are smaller, less convex eyes and the elytra shaped more oviform with more narrowed shoulders compared to very similar P. pumilus. (Peter Messer's comment)

Range

MA-NC-OH(1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by tom murray on 8 August, 2012 - 6:19pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 4 March, 2013 - 7:20am

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