Tachys Dejean 1821
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Tachys

description: Genus Tachys Dejean, 1821
Subgenus Polyderis Motschulsky, 1862 Tachys (Polyderis) brevicornis Chaudoir, 1846 Studied material: Yazd Province.
Citations: New record for Iran.
Subgenus Paratachys Casey, 1918
= Eotachys Jaennel, 1941
Tachys (Paratachys) bistriatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
Studied material: Esfahan, Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari, Mazandaran, Tehran, Fars, Razavi Khorasan, Kerman, North Khorasan, West Azarbaijan and Kordestan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): NowShahr, 2008 (Prov. of Mazandaran).
Citations: Kuh-rang (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963); Dschaz-Morian (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Tachys (Paratachys) cyprius Coulon, 2004
Studied material: Esfahan, Mazandaran, Razavi Khorasan, Kerman, West Azerbaïdjan and Kordestan (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: New record for Iran.
Tachys (Paratachys) fasciatus fasciatus (Motschulsky, 1851) Citations: Shadegan (Prov. of Khuzestan; Kult, 1961).
Tachys (Paratachys) frischi Coulon & Felix, 2009
Citations: 20 km East of Kushak Sar, Jahrom, 28°41’42”N, 53°03’21”E, 1060 m; Estahban, Darab, 28°59’49”N, 54°26’17”E, 1500 m; 23 km NW Darab, 28°52’34’’N, 54°23’57’’E, 1340 m (Prov. of Fars; Coulon & Felix, 2009); Hajiabad, Dar Agah, 28°21’37”N, 55°42’37”E, 1110 m (Prov. of Hormozgan; Coulon & Felix, 2009); 5 km West of Ghasr-e-Shirin, 4°32’16,2”N, 55°42’29,8”E, 404 m (Prov. of Kermanshah; Coulon & Felix, 2009).
Tachys (Paratachys) fulvicollis (Dejean, 1831)
Citations: South of Sabzawaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Tachys (Paratachys) micros (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828)
Studied material: Semnan, Mazandaran, Razavi Khorasan, North Khorasan, Golestan, Yazd and West Azarbaijan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Nowshahr, Khirood forest (Prov. of Mazandaran).
Citations: South of Saguch (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Tachys (Paratachys) mirandus Coulon & Wrase, 2009
Citations: Fuman, Masuleh-Khalkhal road, 4km North west of Masuleh, 1404 m (Prov. of Gilan; Coulon & Wrase, 2009a); Sari, Mohammadabad Mt.s, 2.2 km NE of Bendela, 1533m (Prov. of Mazandaran; Coulon & Wrase, 2009a).
Tachys (Paratachys) palustris (Reitter, 1894)
Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Tachys (Paratachys) pliginskii Solodovnikov, 2001 Studied material: West Azarbaijan, Fars and Razavi Khorasan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: Sivand, NE Shiraz, 1770 m (Prov. of Fars; Coulon & Wrase, 2009a); 29km South of Rasht, 140 m (Prov. of Gilan; Coulon & Wrase, 2009a).
Tachys (Paratachys) transcaucasicus transcaucasicus Coulon, 2004 Studied material: Golestan, Kerman, Fars, Razavi Khorasan, Esfahan, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari, Semnan, Tehran, Yazd and Kordestan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: New record for Iran.
Tachys (Paratachys) transumbratus Bates, 1892
Studied material: Kerman and Fars Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin). Citations: New record for Iran.
Comment: The designation of the above cited specimens should be checked. All studied Iranian T. transumbratus specimens are very similar (or even identical) to T. fasciatus (Motschulsky, 1851).
Tachys (Paratachys) trechoderus Coulon, 2004 Studied material: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari (leg. R. Felix) Citations: New record for Iran.
Tachys (Paratachys) turkestanicus Csiki, 1928
= striolatus Reitter, 1894
Citations: Shadegan (Prov. of Khuzestan; Kult, 1961); AzadShahr (Prov. of Golestan; Rezaie-Node, 2012).
Tachys (Paratachys) vilis (Andrewes, 1925)
Studied material: (ZMTU): Karaj (Prov. of Elburz), Kordak (Prov. of Qazvin), Najmabad (Prov. of Tehran) and Shahre kord (Prov. of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari).
Citations: New record for Iran.
Subgenus Tachys Dejean, 1821
Tachys (Tachys) angustulus Reitter, 1899
= parallelus Reitter, 1894
Studied material: Esfahan and Hormozgan Provinces (leg. R. Felix and coll. Museum of Berlin (J. Frisch)). Citations: Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014); Shadegan and Shush (Prov. of Khuzestan; Kult, 1961).
Tachys (Tachys) centralis J.sahlberg, 1900
Citations: Bonab and Marage (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Coulon, 2011); Orumie (Prov. of West Azarbaijan; Coulon, 2011).
Tachys (Tachys) dimediatus dimediatus Motschulsky, 1849
Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003); Without exact locality (Coulon, 2011).
Tachys (Tachys) lenkoranus Csiki, 1928
Citations: Shadegan (Prov. of Khuzestan; Kult, 1961); West of Abadan (Prov. of Khuzestan; Coulon, 2011); Bandar-e Ganave (Prov. of Bushehr; Coulon, 2011).
Tachys (Tachys) quadrillum (Schaum, 1860)
Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Tachys (Tachys) scutellaris scutellaris Stephens, 1828 Citations: Nirizee (Prov. of Fars; Mandl, 1963).
Tachys (Tachys) vibex Kopecký, 2003
= vittatus Motschulsky, 1850
Studied material: (ZMTU): Najmaabad, 2008 (Prov. of Tehran). Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
description: Published as part of Azadbakhsh, Saeed & Nozari, Jamasb, 2015, Checklist of the Iranian Ground Beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae), pp. 1-108 in Zootaxa 4024 (1) on pages 53-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494