Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Subgenus Tachyura Motschulsky, 1862

Type species.

Elaphrus quadrisignatus Duftschmidt, 1812 .

Diagnosis.

i8 impressed from base to apex, subparallel to elytral margin, inserted anteriorly between Eo2 and Eo3; humeral series of elytral ombilicate setal insertions asymmetrically distributed, with Eo4 removed from closely grouped Eo1-3 such that d(3,4)> d(1,2) and d(3,4)> d(2,3); ARG short, straight to medially arcuate or elongate, straight, and parallel to elytral margin ( Elaphropus yunax).

Distribution.

Old World, Australia; adventive in the Americas.