Genus Arupaia Stebnicka, 1999 Diagnosis Length 5.5–6.0 mm. Body elongate, dark reddish brown. Head wide; clypeus longitudinally wrinkled, strongly gibbous; frontoclypeal suture absent; frons punctate. Pronotum wide; with large and oval punctures; lateral margins straight, explanate and furrowed; posterior margin with deep groove. Elytra with humerus forwardly expanded, apically glabrous; fifth interstriae with anterior tubercle; fifth stria grooved anteriorly. Legs elongate and slender. Remarks Arupaia is a monotypic genus currently only known from Brazil (Stebnicka 2009).

Published as part of Gama, Emanuel R. R., Skelley, Paul E. & Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., 2026, Identification guide to the Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Brazil, pp. 1-225 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1038 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175