Elaphropus Motschulsky 1839
Creators: name: Azadbakhsh, Saeed
name: Nozari, Jamasb
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Elaphropus

description: Genus Elaphropus Motschulsky, 1839
Subgenus Elaphropus Motschulsky, 1839
Elaphropus (Elaphropus) caraboides Motschulsky, 1839 Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Subgenus Tachyura Motschulsky, 1862
= Tachyphanes Jeannel, 1946
Elaphropus (Tachyura) anatolica (Jedlička, 1965)
Studied material: Razavi Khorasan, Mazandaran and North Khorasan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: Derbend, 25 km North of Tehran, 2000 m (Prov. of Tehran; Mandl, 1967b).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) bisbimaculatus (Chevrolat, 1860) Citations: Keschar (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) bodemeyeri (A. Fleischer, 1915)
Studied material: Fars Province; (ZMTU): Aghasht and Kondor (Prov. of Tehran). Citations: North of Iran, Elburz Mts. R. (Dobler, 1975).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) decoloratus (Chaudoir, 1850)
Studied material: Kerman, Hormozgan, Razavi Khorasan, Mazandaran, Esfahan, North Khorasan, Fars and West Azarbaijan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Kordak, 2008 (Prov. of Qazvin) and Kondor, 2008 (Prov. of Tehran).
Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) derbendensis (Jedlička, 1967)
Studied material: Golestan, Kerman, Esfahan, Mazandaran, Fars and West Azarbaijan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: Darband (Prov. of Tehran; Jedlička, 1967); Derbend, 25 km North of Tehran, 2000 m (Prov. of Tehran; Mandl, 1967b).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) diabrachys (Kolenati, 1845)
= inaequalis (Kolenati, 1845)
Studied material: Kerman, Fars., Hormozgan, Razavi Khorasan, Mazandaran, Esfahan, North Khorasan, Semnan, Golestan, Tehran, Yazd, Lorestan, Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari, Kermanshah, Zanjan and East Azerbaïdjan (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Kordak, 2008 (Prov. of Qazvin), Kondor, 2008 (Prov. of Tehran), Dohezar River, 2008 (Prov. of Mazandaran) and Chadegan, 2012 (Prov. of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari). Citations: Qualeh-e Asghard and Lalezar (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963 E. inaequalis Kolenati, 1845); Pirbakran (Prov. of Esfahan; Mandl, 1963 E. inaequalis Kolenati, 1845); Basmenj Village (Prov. of East Azarbaijan; Atamehr, 2013); Esfarayen (Prov. of North Khorasan; Hajiqanbar & Khaustov, 2014).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) confusa Coulon & Felix, 2011
Citations: 9 km South west of Hajiabad, 840 m; 6 km North east of Tall-e Gerdu, 880 m; Hajiabad, Dar agah, 1110 m (Prov. of Hormozgan; Felix, 2011).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) euphraticus (Reitter, 1885)
Studied material: Razavi Khorasan, Hormozgan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Fars, Yazd, North Khorasan, Semnan, Golestan, West Azarbaijan (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Khane Zenian, 2010 (Prov. of Fars) and Neyzar, 2012 (Prov. of Qom).
Citations: IranShahr (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Kult, 1961).; South of Kerman (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) iranicus (Jedlička, 1963)
Citations: Salsolaceen, Bander Damala (Prov. of West Azarbaijan; Jedlička, 1963).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) latus (Peyron, 1858)
= afghanistanicus (Jedlička, 1967)
Citations: IranShahr (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Kult, 1961 subspecies afghanistanicus); Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) lucasi (Jacquelin du Val, 1852)
Studied material: Kermanshah and Fars Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin). Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) parvula (Dejean, 1831) Studied material: (ZMTU): Qalat village, 2012 (Prov. of Fars). Citations: New record for Iran.
Elaphropus (Tachyura) quadrisignatus (Duftschmid, 1812)
Citations: South of Kerman (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) radjabii (Morvan, 1973)
Studied material: (ZMTU): Khane Zenian, 2010 (Prov. of Fars) and Kondor, 2008 (Prov. of Tehran). Citations: Zagros Mts, Ochtoran-Kuh, Durud, 2300 m (Prov. of Lurestan; Morvan, 1973).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) tetraspilus (Solsky, 1874)
Studied material: North Khorasan, Razavi Khorasan, Hormozgan, Kerman and Fars (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin).
Citations: IranShahr (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Kult, 1961); Jiroft, Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Kult, 1961).
Elaphropus (Tachyura) thoracicus (Kolenati, 1845)
Studied material: Yazd, Esfahan, Razavi Khorasan, Tehran, Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari, Kerman, Fars, Esfahan, Hormozgan, Kordestan, West Azarbaijan and Zanjan Provinces (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Shahrekord, 2240 m (Prov. of Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari).
Citations: Without exact locality (Kopecký, 2003).
Subgenus Sphaerotachys Müller, 1926
Elaphropus (Sphaerotachys) fumigatus (Motschulsky, 1851) Citations: Sabzawaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963).
Elaphropus (Sphaerotachys) hoemorroidalis (Ponza, 1805) Studied material: Kerman, Esfahan, Fars, Kermanshah, Hormozgan, Kordestan and West Azarbaijan (leg. J. Frisch, coll. Of the Museum of Berlin); (ZMTU): Najmaabad, 1200 m (Prov. of Tehran).
Citations: IranShahr and Kuh-e Taftan, 1650 m (Prov. of Sistan va Baluchestan; Kult, 1961); Jiroft, Anbar-Abad (Prov. of Kerman; Kult, 1961); South of Sabzawaran (Prov. of Kerman; Mandl, 1963); Chalus (Prov. of Mazandaran; Mandl, 1967b); Gorgan env. (Prov. of Golestan; Afshari & Khormali, 2014).
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 51-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4024.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/240494