{{short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}} {{Speciesbox | image = Tangarona_pensa.jpg | image_caption = Specimen from near Parakao | status = NU | status_system = NZTCS | display_parents = 3 | genus = Tangarona | parent_authority = R.T. Bell & J.R. Bell, 1982 | species = pensa | authority = (Broun, 1880) | synonyms = Genus:<br> * ''Tangaroa'' <small>R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1978</small><ref name="Bell and Bell 1978"/> – preoccupied by ''Tangaroa'' <small>Lehtinen, 1967</small> Species:<br> * ''Rhysodes pensus'' <small>Broun, 1880</small> * ''Tangaroa pensus'' <small>(Broun 1880)</small><ref name="Bell and Bell 1978"/> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=GBIF/> }}
'''''Tangarona''''' is a genus of wrinkled bark beetles in the family Carabidae. '''''Tangarona pensa''''', found in New Zealand, is the only species of this genus.<ref name=catlife/><ref name=bell2/><ref name=GBIF/>
''Tangarona pensa'' measure {{convert|7-9|mm|in|2|abbr=on}} in length.<ref name="Bell and Bell 1978"/>
==References== {{Reflist| refs = <ref name=catlife>{{Cite web| title=Tangarona R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1982 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8KZ5R | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2023-04-09 }}</ref>
<ref name=bell2>{{Cite web| url = http://tolweb.org/Tangarona_pensus/2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928160618/http://tolweb.org/Tangarona_pensus/2000 |archive-date=28 September 2020 | last1 = Bell| first1 = Ross T. | title = Tangarona. ''Tangarona pensus''. Version 14 December 1999 | website = Tree of Life Project }}</ref>
<ref name="Bell and Bell 1978">{{cite journal |last1=Bell |first1=Ross T. |last2=Bell |first2=Joyce R. |name-list-style=amp |title=Rhysodini of the World, Part I. A new classification of the tribe, and a synopsis of ''Omoglymmius'' subgenus ''Nitiglymmius'', new subgenus (Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae) |journal=Quaestiones Entomologicae |date=1978 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=43–88 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51239189#page/629/mode/1up }}</ref>
<ref name=GBIF>{{GBIF |id=3262696 |taxon=''Tangarona'' R.T. & J.R.Bell, 1982 |accessdate=5 January 2022}}</ref> }}
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Category:Rhysodinae Category:Monotypic beetle genera Category:Endemic beetles of New Zealand
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