Large Carcass Beetle: S2, Male, dorsal

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, Male, dorsal🔎

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.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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