taxonID	type	description	language	source
3CDDBEDE2F385478910D6489772B63BB.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2	en	Kopecký, Tomáš, Bezděk, Jan, Mattila, Jaakko (2025): Redescription of Tachyura (s. str.) ferrugata (Reitter, 1895) (Coleoptera, Carabidae), with the comments on the availability of varieties described by Johan Reinhold Sahlberg in Tachyina. ZooKeys 1233: 195-206, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1233.145545
3CDDBEDE2F385478910D6489772B63BB.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Syria (Kopecký 2009; present paper), Turkey (Reitter 1895; Sahlberg 1913 b; Jedlička 1968; Kopecký 2009; present paper), Yemen (Socotra Island) (Kopecký 2009). The occurrence in Greece, reported in the first edition of Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Kopecký 2003), was based on erroneously determined specimens of Tachyura thoracica (Kopecký 2009). However, the occurrence in Greece was erroneously repeated in the second edition (Kopecký 2017). Key to the identification of the East Mediterranean and the Near East species related to Tachyura ferrugata The varieties described by Johan Reinhold Sahlberg in Tachyina Johan Reinhold Sahlberg (1903, 1913 a, 1913 b) described altogether six varieties in Tachyina. During a careful reading of Sahlberg’s papers we found that four of these varieties represent unavailable infrasubspecific names since a subspecies concept was used in the same works, and according to available information, these names were not validated prior to 1985 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999, Article 45.6.4.1). The type specimens and one specimen of each species from the former Johan Reinhold Sahlberg collection are deposited in the Finnish Museum of Natural History (MZH) and the rest of his collection is deposited in the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku (Groll 2017). However, from the original material of the varieties described in Tachyina, we found only one specimen of Tachys (Tachyura) quadrisignatus var. caramanicus in MZH. Tachys scutellaris var. flavicollis J. R. Sahlberg, 1903: 5 An available name. A junior primary homonym of Tachys flavicollis Motschulsky, 1862. In catalogues it is usually listed as synonym of Tachys (Tachys) dimediatus dimediatus Motschulsky, 1849 (Kopecký 2003, 2017). Tachys (Tachyta) parvulus var. coarctatus J. R. Sahlberg, 1903: 5 An available name. Sahlberg was evidently considering whether to describe this taxon as a separate species (“ An species distincta? ”) but ultimately chose to describe it as a new variety. In catalogues it is usually listed as synonym of Tachyura (Tachyura) parvula (Dejean, 1831) (Csiki 1928; Kopecký 2003, 2017). Tachys (Tachyura) sexstriatus var. brunneicollis J. R. Sahlberg, 1913 b: 19 An unavailable infrasubspecific name since a subspecies concept was used in the same work and the name was not validated prior to 1985 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999, Article 45.6.4.1). It was previously listed as synonym of Tachys euphratica Reitter, 1885 (Kopecký 2017). Tachys (Tachyura) quadrisignatus var. caramanicus J. R. Sahlberg, 1913 b: 18 An unavailable infrasubspecific name since a subspecies concept was used in the same work and the name was not validated prior to 1985 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999, Article 45.6.4.1). It was listed by Kopecký (2017) as a subspecies of Tachyura (Tachyura) quadrisignata (Duftschmid, 1812). Tachys scutellaris var. obscurus J. R. Sahlberg, 1913 a: 7 Tachys scutellaris var. obscurus J. R. Sahlberg, 1913 b: 19 Sahlberg (1913 a, 1913 b) proposed the name obscurus twice for the specimens from different localities. If they were available names, they would be homonyms. Because the subspecies concept was used in both works and the names were not validated prior to 1985 (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999, Article 45.6.4.1), they are infrasubspecific and unavailable. The first name was previously listed as a synonym of Tachys centromaculatus Wollaston, 1864, and the second name as a homonym of T. scutellaris var. obscurus J. R. Sahlberg, 1913 a (Kopecký 2017).	en	Kopecký, Tomáš, Bezděk, Jan, Mattila, Jaakko (2025): Redescription of Tachyura (s. str.) ferrugata (Reitter, 1895) (Coleoptera, Carabidae), with the comments on the availability of varieties described by Johan Reinhold Sahlberg in Tachyina. ZooKeys 1233: 195-206, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1233.145545
