Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Tachys pallidus Chaudoir, 1868 Tachys pallidus Chaudoir, 1868b: 212. Type locality: "Texas" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Erwin (1974a: 149), in MHNP. Distribution. This species is known from New Jersey ( Beutenmueller 1897: 37; Hayward 1900: 221; Smith 1910: 203), the Florida Peninsula (Leng 1915: 574), Big Pine Key, one of the Florida Keys (Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2012), Claiborne County in southwestern Mississippi (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2012), Cameron Parish in southwestern Louisiana (Hine 1906: 76), "several localities" in Texas (Hayward 1900: 221), and Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2012); it has been recorded also from Guana Island (Valentine and Ivie 2005: 275) in the British Virgin Islands. Records. USA : FL, LA, MS, NJ, NM, TX - Guana Island