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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3DE781B6-D48B-432B-9784-6703EA6B280B

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/31BF225F-4378-C48E-F75C-37FAAC5484C5

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scientific name

Liotachys Bates, 1871
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae