''Trechus'' is a genus of
ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it ...
native to the
Palearctic
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Th ...
(including
Europe
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) and the
Near East
The Near East () is a transcontinental region around the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The term was invented in the 20th ...
. There are more than 1,000 described species in ''Trechus''.
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The name of the genus is derived from the Greek word ''trécho'', meaning "I run".
[''Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen aus Reitter's Fauna Germanica'', Sigmund Schenkling. 1917. Online]
Internet Archive
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See List of ''Trechus'' species for the species in the genus ''Trechus''.
References
External links
''Trechus'' at Fauna Europaea
Beetle genera
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