''Orthogonius baconi'' is a species 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 i ...

in the subfamily

Orthogoniinae Orthogoniinae is a subfamily of ground beetles (family Carabidae). Occasionally it was treated as a tribe Orthogoniini of subfamily Harpalinae Harpalinae is a huge subfamily of ground beetles that contains 20,000 species or ~6,400 spp. in 24 ...

. It was described by

Maximilien Chaudoir Maximilien Chaudoir, or Maximilien, baron de Chaudoir, (12 September 1816, Ivnitsa, near Zhitomir – 6 May 1881, Amélie-les-Bains) was a Russian entomologist. He was a specialist in Coleoptera and in particular the Carabidae. His Cicindelida ...

in 1871.

References

baconi Beetles described in 1871 {{Orthogoniinae-stub