Species Pentagonica dichroa Sloane, 1903

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• Pentagonica dichroa Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [636].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) poor condition, Mackay, Queensland.

  Secondary source:

   Andrewes, H.E. 1923. On the types of Carabidae by Schmidt-Goebel in his Faunula Coleopterorum Birmaniae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1923: 1-63 [24]; Baehr, M. 2011. The genus Pentagonica Schmidt-Goebel in the Oriental, Papuan, and Australian regions (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pentagonicini). Coleoptera 15: 1–200 [25].

Introduction

This species was synonymised by Andrewes (1923) with the widely distributed Pentagonica ruficollis Schmidt Goebel, 1846, but was subsequently re-established as a species by Baehr (2011).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes