Liotachys Bates, 1871

Boyd, Olivia F. & Erwin, Terry L., 2016, 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, ZooKeys 626, pp. 87-123 : 106

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.10033
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scientific name	Liotachys Bates, 1871
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Genus Liotachys Bates, 1871 View in CoL

Type species.

Liotachys antennatus Bates, 1871.

Diagnosis.

Overall form “ant-like”; antennae lighter apically than at base; pronotum pedunculate, slender at base and lacking produced hind angles; mentum bearing paired foveae; elytron smooth, with only i1 visible (subsulcate); i8 not visible; ARG short and arcuate.

Distribution.

Amazon basin.