Species Omorgus (Omorgus) crotchi (Harold, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trox crotchi Harold, E. von 1871. Diagnosen neuer Coprophagen. Coleopterologische Hefte 8: 114-116 [116].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I307.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Scholtz, C.H. 1986. Revision of the genus Trox Fabricius (Coleoptera: Trogidae) of the Australasian Region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 125: 1-99 [26].
• Trox asperatus 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 [908].

  Type data:

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

  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 [1080].
• Trox eremita Blackburn, T. 1892. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(1): 20-73 [Date published July 1892] [38].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, MacDonnell Ranges, NT (as Central Australia).
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Scholtz, C.H. 1986. Revision of the genus Trox Fabricius (Coleoptera: Trogidae) of the Australasian Region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 125: 1-99 [26].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Scholtz, C.H. 1986. Revision of the genus Trox Fabricius (Coleoptera: Trogidae) of the Australasian Region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 125: 1-99 [26]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: necrophagous, terrestrial.

Larva: necrophagous.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [305] (new records from N NT and Flinders Ranges, SA)

 

History of changes

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