Genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel, 1846

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel, H.M. 1846. Faunula Coleopterorum Birmaniae, adjectis nonullis Bengaliae indiginis Med. Dr. Johann Wilhelm Halfer´s hinterlassene Sammlungen aus Vorder- und Hinter-Indien. Nach seinem Tode in Aufrage des böhm. National-Museums unter Mitwirkung Mehrerer. Prague : G. Haase Söhne 94 pp. 3 pls. [47].

  Type species:

   Pentagonica ruficollis Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 by subsequent designation, see Andrewes, H.E. 1939. Papers on Oriental Carabidae. XXXV. On the types of some Indian genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 3: 128-139 [137].

  Secondary source:

   Lacordaire, J.T. 1854. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères Tom. 1 Contenant les familles des Cicindélètes, Carabiques, Dytiscides, Gyrinides et Palpicornes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret xx 486 pp. [133].
• Wakefieldia Broun, T. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Wellington : Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department Part 1 651 pp. [62].

  Type species:

   Wakefieldia vittata Broun, 1880 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dupuis, P. 1913. Coleoptera Adephaga (Fam. Carabidae, subfam. Pentagonicinae). Genera Insectorum 145: 1-4 pl. 1 [2]
• Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VII. pp. 1279-1598 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 124. [Date published 7/Nov/1932] [1501]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical and warm temperate parts, with some species recorded from Australia sharing their distributions with nearby Oriental & Papuan regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Baehr, M. 2011. The genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel in the Oriental, Papuan, and Australian regions (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pentagonicini). Coleoptera 15: 1–200

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019	Pentagonicinae	20-Apr-2016	MODIFIED
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)