Perigona Perigona pallida Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet, Yves ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 8KY42 867EB462-8C77-46EB-2334-7E4838BB1669 Laporte, 1835 Laporte 1835 Insecta Carabidae Perigona GBIF Animalia Perigona Coleoptera 780 781 Arthropoda genus   PerigonaLaporte, 1835: 151. Type species:  Perigona pallidaLaporte, 1835 by monotypy. Etymology. Uncertain, either from the Greek peri(around, near, very) and gone(offspring) or from Perigone, daughter of the brigand Sinis. According to Desmarest (1851: 104), the name derives from the Greek periand gonia(angle) [feminine].  Diversity. Excluding the subcosmopolitan  Perigona nigriceps, about 105 species (Lorenz 2005: 438-439) in the temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (one species), Neotropical (twelve species), Australian (about 17 species), Oriental (about 30 species), eastern Palaearctic (five species), and Afrotropical (about 40 species) Regions. These species are arrayed in 12 subgenera:  CryptoperigonaPerrault (one Neotropical species),  EuripogenaBasilewsky (four Afrotropical species),  EuryperigonaJeannel (three species in the Philippines, Indonesia, and New Guinea),  HirtoperigonaPerrault9 (two Oriental species),  NeoperigonaPerrault (three Neotropical species),  Perigonas.str. (57 species in the Old World as well as the Neotropical and Australian Regions),  PerigonillusJeannel (three Afrotropical species),  RipogenaJeannel (ten Afrotropical species),  Trechicus(18 species),  TyphlonestraJeannel (one Oriental and one Afrotropical species),  XenogonaJeannel (one Afrotropical species), and  XenogonillaBasilewsky (one Afrotropical species).