Species Tachys latissimus (Motschulsky, 1851)

Museums

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• Elaphropus latissimus Motschulsky, V. 1851. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés par M. Victor Motschulsky de son dernier voyage. 1 Pselaphiens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 24: 479-511 [508].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, East Indies.
• Bembidium bifoveatum Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [117].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K18155, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Bembidium ovatum Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [117].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 6 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K18154 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1921. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part vi Tribe Bembidiini. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 46: 192-208 [206]
• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [474]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

History of changes