Species Omorgus (Omorgus) alatus (Macleay, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trox alatus Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II. The Lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 897-924 [907].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS), King Sound, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Haaf, E. 1958. Nachtrag zur Revision der australischen Arten der Gattung Trox (Col. Scarab.). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 9: 1078-1082 [1078].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cave dweller, necrophagous, terrestrial.

Larva: necrophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

Bat guano.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)