Bembidium flavicaudus Tachymenis reflexicollis Tachymenis marginicollis Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet, Yves ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 43L8C 2CCED08F-EA73-FD46-BC16-54522DDA2359 (Say, 1823) Say 1823 Insecta Carabidae Mioptachys GBIF Animalia Mioptachys flavicauda Coleoptera 434 435 Arthropoda species flavicauda   Bembidium flavicaudusSay, 1823a: 87. Type locality: "W[hite] S[ulphur] Springs [Greenbrier County], W[est] V[irgini]a" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 339), in MCZ [# 33055].   TachymenisreflexicollisMotschulsky, 1862b: 31. Type locality: "environs de New-York" (original citation). Two syntypes in ZMMU (Keleinikova 1976: 214). Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 441).  Tachymenis marginicollisMotschulsky, 1862b: 32. Type locality: "environs de la Nouvelle Orleans[Orleans Parish], Louisiane" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Erwin (1974a: 141), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Casey (1918: 221), confirmed by Erwin (1974a: 145).  Distribution. This species ranges from the Nova Scotia Peninsula (Christopher G. Majka pers. comm. 2007) to western Washington (Hatch 1953: 104), north to southern British Columbia (Lindroth 1966: 441) and southern Alberta (CNC), south to southwestern California (Los Angeles County, CAS), southeastern Arizona (Dajoz 2007: 21), south-central Texas (Bastrop County, CNC), and southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 18).  Records.  CAN: AB, BC, NB, NS, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV   Figure 24.  Mioptachys flavicauda(Say). This small species is a characteristic element of the fauna that lives under the bark of dead deciduous trees. Despite its size, it is easily recognized in the field by its conspicuous yellow apical third of the elytra. Thomas Say, the first entomologist born on this continent worthy of the name, was struck by the coloration and for that reason proposed the name flavicauda, derived from the Latin flavus(yellow) and cauda(tail), for the species.