Large Carcass Beetle
S2, profile
Riverland
Large Carcass Beetle
S1, anterior
 
                      
Large Carcass Beetle (Omorgus tatei)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Gnawer Beetle (Trogidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Large Carcass Beetle (Omorgus tatei)
This Photo:     🔍S2, Iso-view🔎

Thank you Paul M Hutchinson for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Riverland and possibly elsewhere
~26mm
Not only is this the largest carcass beetle we've found, it also has distinctively large warts, or tubercles.

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 17-Oct-2019
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.