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Tachinus
Taxonomy
Tachinus was named by Gravenhorst (1802). It is extant. It is the type genus of Tachinidae.
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Gravenhorst (1802); to Staphylinidae by Scudder (1900), Hong (1984); to Tachyporini by Horn (1877), Hatch (1957), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Tachinusini by Yamamoto (2021), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Coleoptera by Gravenhorst (1802); to Staphylinidae by Scudder (1900), Hong (1984); to Tachyporini by Horn (1877), Hatch (1957), Herman (2001), Bouchard et al. (2011); and to Tachinusini by Yamamoto (2021), Jenkins Shaw et al. (2024).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1802 | Tachinus Gravenhorst p. 134 |
| 1845 | Elliptoma Motschulsky |
| 1858 | Ellipsotomus Motschulsky |
| 1877 | Tachinus Horn p. 84 |
| 1900 | Tachinus Scudder p. 64 |
| 1957 | Tachinus Hatch p. 110 |
| 1984 | Tachinus Hong p. 6 figs. I-9 |
| 2001 | Tachinus Herman p. 915 |
| 2011 | Tachinus Bouchard et al. |
| 2021 | Tachinus Yamamoto p. 80 |
| 2024 | Tachinus Jenkins Shaw et al. p. 124 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Tachinus Gravenhorst 1802
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Tachinus angustatus Horn 1877
Tachinus apterus Maklin 1853
Tachinus arcticus Motschulsky 1860
Tachinus crotchii Horn 1877
Tachinus elongatus Gyllenhal 1810
Tachinus fimbriatus Gravenhorst 1802
Tachinus frigidus Erichson 1839
Tachinus instabilis Maklin 1853
Tachinus luridus Erichson 1840
Tachinus mimus Horn 1877
Tachinus schwarzi Horn 1877
†Tachinus sommatus Scudder 1900
Tachinus thruppi Hatch 1957
Invalid names: Elliptoma Motschulsky 1845 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 37.00000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (41 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | T. sommatus (106381 106382 106384 124681) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Russian Federation | T. sp. (113713) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Niedersachsen) | Staphylininae indet. (109196) | |
| Gelasian | Greenland | T. elongatus (160143) T. spp., T. elongatus (160109 160144 160153) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Russian Federation | T. spp. (163069) | |
| Chibanian | Russian Federation | T. arcticus (163098) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom | T. sp. (168271) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Warwickshire) | T. sp. (169389) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | T. elongatus (164919) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Russian Federation | T. arcticus (153436 153439 153441 153442 153443 153444 153445 153446 163103 163104 163106 173205 173208) T. sp. (173216) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Alaska) | T. apertus (169385) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Colorado) | T. elongatus (169336) T. elongatus, T. angustatus, T. fimbriatus (169347) T. schwartzi (169350) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Washington) | T. frigidus, T. crotchii, T. angustatus, T. mimus (157092 167662) T. instabilis (169370) T. sp. (169375) T. thruppi (169378 169379) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Worcestershire) | T. sp. A, T. spp. (163070) | |
| Tarantian | USA (Pennsylvania) | T. luridus (137206) |