What is Tachys?
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Tachys'' | image = Tachys bistriatus Jacobson.png | image_caption = ''Tachys bistriatus'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | classis = [[Insect]]a | ordo = [[Beetle|Coleoptera]] | subordo = [[Adephaga]] | familia = [[Carabidae]] | genus = '''''Tachys''''' | genus_authority = Dejean, 1821 }} '''''Tachys''''' is a [[genus]] of [[beetle]]s in the family [[Carabidae]]. It contains hundreds of species.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://carabidae.org/carabidae/tachys-dejean-1821.html | title=''Tachys'' Dejean, 1821 | year=2011 | work=Carabidae of the World | accessdate=3 May 2012 | archive-date=25 April 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425053624/http://carabidae.org/carabidae/tachys-dejean-1821.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Species were first organised into this genus in 1821, by [[Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==More reading== * Darlington, P.J. (1962) ''Australian Carabid beetles XI. Some ''Tachys''.'' ''Psyche'', '''69'''(3): 117-128. {{doi|10.1155/1962/71454}} ==Other websites== {{wikispecies}} * {{commons category-inline}} [[Category:Carabidae]] {{biology-stub}}