Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Tachinidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Tachyporinae according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2024
See also Yamamoto 2021
Sister taxa: Abscondus, Acylophorus immotus, Tachyporini, Tachyporoides, Vatesini
Subtaxa: Hesterniasca Mesotachinus Nitidotachinus Protachinus Tachinus
Type: Tachinus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (4 collections), the Russian Federation (16), the United Kingdom (4), United States (15: Alaska, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of United States (4: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (2)
• Jurassic of Australia (1), Kazakhstan (4)
Total: 52 collections including 67 occurrences