Tachyina (Eidocompsus), Erwin, 1974

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 : 114

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Subgenus Eidocompsus Erwin, 1974

Type species.

Trechus brasiliensis Sahlberg, 1844.

Diagnosis.

Broad and robust, depressed to subcylindrical in form; pronotum quadrate, subequal in width at base and apex; elytra usually unicolorous; elytral interneurs punctate; i8 subsulcate and not bearing fovea(e) at or near middle of elytron; i8 with or without subhumeral fovea: if present, then fovea shallow and bearing seta or small, perforate, and located at basal fourth near seta Eo4; if i8 lacking posthumeral foveae, elytron with 8 entirely punctate interneurs. ABL = 1.84-3.04 mm. ( Erwin 1974a; Erwin et al. 2002).

Distribution.

Species of this subgenus are restricted to the New World, described from México south to Argentina and some of the Caribbean islands.