Genus Tachys Dejean, 1821 (sensu lato)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tachys Stephens, J.F. 1828. Illustrations of British Entomology; or a synopsis of indigenous insects containing their generic and specific distinctions...... Mandibulata. London : Baldwin & Craddock Vol. 2 1-112 pls 10-14. [4].

  Type species:

   Tachys scutellaris Stephens, 1828 by subsequent designation, see Hope, F.W. 1838. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing the predaceous and water beetles of Linneus and Fabricius. London : Henry G. Bohn Vol. 2 xvi 168 pp. 4 pls. [61].
• Tachys Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp. [16].

  Type species:

   Tachys scutellaris Stephens, 1828 by designation under Plenary Powers, see 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 [158].
• Tachylopha Motschulsky, V. de 1862. Entomologie speciale. Remarques sur la collection d'insectes de V. de Motschulsky. Coléoptères. Études Entomologiques 11: 15-55 [27].

  Type species:

   Lopha ovata Motschulsky, 1851 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1928. Carabidae II: Mormolycinae, Harpalinae I. pp. 1-226 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 97. [Date published 12/Dec/1928] [166].
• Paratachys Casey, T.L. 1918. A review of the North American Bembidiinae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 8: 1-223 [174].

  Type species:

   Paratachys austinicus Casey, 1918 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Erwin, T.L. 1974. Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) supplement A: Lectotype designations for New World species, two new genera, and notes on generic concepts. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 76: 123-155 [139].
• Eotachys Jeannel, R. 1941. Coléoptères Carabiques. Première partie. Faune de France 39: 1-571 [426].

  Type species:

   Elaphrus bistriatus Duftschmid, 1812 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Erwin, T.L. 1974. Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini) supplement A: Lectotype designations for New World species, two new genera, and notes on generic concepts. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 76: 123-155 [139].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp. [136] (this group is being reworked and these genera will be removed from synonymy, possibly leaving no Tachys sensu stricto in Australia)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

ID Keys

see Baehr (2016)

 

Diagnosis References

Baehr, M. 2016. A new species of the Tachys (s. l.) ectromoides-group from southeastern Queensland, Australia (coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini). Australian Entomologist 43(2): 69–74 [72–73]

 

General References

Baehr, M. 2003. A further new species of the Tachys (s.l.) ectromoides-group from Queensland, Australia. Spixiana (Munich) 26(2): 143-147 [146] (queries placement of ectromoides-group species in Tachys)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Sep-2016	Tachys Dejean, 1821 (sensu lato)	14-Sep-2016	MODIFIED
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		21-Feb-2011	MODIFIED