Saprositellus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Aphodiinae
Tribus: Odontolochini
Genus: Saprositellus
Species (5): S. ariquemes – S. denticulatus – S. kenodontus – S. peruanus – S. santaritae
Name

Saprositellus Balthasar, 1967

Type species: Saprositellus denticulatus Balthasar, 1967.

References
Additional references

Skelley, P.E. 2007: New South American taxa of Odontolochini Stebnicka and Howden (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Insecta Mundi, (0022): 1–15. PDF
Stebnicka, Z.T. 2003: The genus Saprositellus Balthasar, with descriptions of three new Neotropical species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Odontolochini). Coleopterists bulletin, 57(4): 451–457. DOI: 10.1649/582 JSTOR

Links

Schoolmeesters P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 18, 2017]