Taxonomic review of New World Tachyina (Coleoptera, Carabidae): descriptions of new genera, subgenera, and species, with an updated key to the subtribe in the Americas
Author
Boyd, Olivia F.
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
ZooKeys
2016
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87
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.10033
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.10033
1313-2970-626-87
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae
Genus
Costitachys Erwin, 1974
Type species.
Costitachys inusitatus
Erwin, 1974.
Diagnosis.
Mentum without foveae; foretibia with apicolateral notch; body subdepressed, flavotestaceous, shiny; head with single pair of supraorbital setae; basal protarsomere of male dilated, medially dentiform; head (3), pronotum (5), and elytron (8) with prominent longitudinal carinae; ABL = 1.7-2.6 mm.
Distribution.
Known from sandy riparian habitats throughout the Amazon basin, from the eastern Andes of Ecuador and
Peru
to the Atlantic coast of South America (Erwin 1974;
Erwin and Kavanaugh 1999
,
2007
).