Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Alternative spelling: Elaphrini
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Carabidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Antemnacrassa, Apotomopterus, Ataktosites, Bembidium, Brachininae, Brachinites, Broscinae, Carabidium, Carabinae, Carabites, Carabites, Carabopteron, Cavicarabus, Celeripedes, Cicindelites, Conjunctiinae, Cratacanthus florissantensis, Elaphrotites, Fangshania, Feronites, Fonsecacarabus, Fossores, Gehringiinae, Glenopterus, Hadrocephalus, Harpalinae, Harpalomimes, Hebeicarabus, Lithocantharis, Loricera exita, Loricerinae, Meileyingia, Metagrilium, Migadopinae, Nebriinae, Nebrorabus, Neothanes, Notokistus, Omophroninae, Paussinae, Platyninae, Procarabites, Protopaussinae, Protorabinae, Rhopalochlaenius, Rhysodinae, Scaritinae, Siagoninae, Sinocarabus, Stereocerus, Sunocarabus, Trechinae, Trechoides, Trechus fractus, Tremembecarabus, Wongyekokia, Wuchangicarabus, Yunnanocarabus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: British Columbia, Ontario collections), France (1), Greenland (9), Japan (3), the Russian Federation (7), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (11: California, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Pliocene of Japan (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 45 collections including 83 occurrences