Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox 1868)

This species has previously been recorded fromthe western and southern coastal areas of Western Australia, the southern regions of South Australia and the area near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. There is also an isolated record from the King Leopold Range in the north of Western Australia (Pokryszko 1996). In the Pilbara it is confined to the near west coast with an isolated inland record from the Ashburton River (Figure 3).