Subtribe Tachyina Motschulsky, 1862

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• Tachyaires Motschulsky, V. de 1862. Entomologie speciale. Remarques sur la collection d'insectes de V. de Motschulsky. Coléoptères. Études Entomologiques 11: 15-55 [24] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1990). original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Jeannel (1941 as Tachyini), generally accepted as in Park et al. (2006 as Tachyini); current spelling maintained (Art. 29.5): incorrect stem formation in prevailing usage (should be Tache-, see Alonso-Zarazaga 2007)].

  Type genus:

   Tachys Dejean, 1821.

  Secondary source:

   Jeannel, R. 1941. Coléoptères Carabiques. Première partie. Faune de France 39: 1-571 [401, 422]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1990. Opinion 1598. Ophonus Dejean, 1821 and Tachys Dejean, 1821 (Insecta, Coleoptera): Carabus sabulicola Panzer, 1796 and Tachys scutellaris Stephens, 1828 designated as the respective type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 47(2): 158-159; Park, J.K., Trac, D.H. & Will, K. 2006. Carabidae from Vietnam (Coleoptera). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 9(2): 85–105 [91]; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. 2007. Comment on the proposed fixation of the feminine gender of the genus and the form of derivation of family-group names based on Trachys Fabricius, 1801 (Insecta, Coleoptera) [case 3335]. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 64(3): 187.

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