Species Omorgus (Omorgus) subcarinatus (Macleay, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trox subcarinatus Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [128].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS), Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Haaf, E. 1954. Die australischen Arten der Gattung Trox (Col. Scarab.). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 5: 691-740 [739].
• Trox fenestratus Harold, E. von 1872. Monographie der Gattung Trox. Coleopterologische Hefte 9: 1-192 [97].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Bowen (as Port Denison) and Cape York (as Cap York), QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Haaf, E. 1958. Nachtrag zur Revision der australischen Arten der Gattung Trox (Col. Scarab.). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 9: 1078-1082 [1079]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: necrophagous, terrestrial.

Larva: necrophagous.

 

History of changes

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