Genus Saprolochus Stebnicka & Galante, 2007 (new record) Diagnosis Length 2.3–4.0 mm. Body elongate, convex, piceous. Head broad, with strongly gibbous medially, coarsely punctate posteriorly and with short transverse wrinkles anterior margin of clypeus; clypeus sinuate, anterior margin thickened medially, downward bent with big acuminate dentiform process. Pronotum tumid anteriorly, laterally declined and variably punctate. Elytra with humeral denticle and with interstriae weakly convex; striae shallow, with coarse punctures separated by short transverse carina. Mesoventrite with V-shaped furrow parallel to lateral margin of mesocoxa. Remarks Saprolochus has four recognized species reported from Bolivia, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela (Skelley 2007b; Stebnicka & Galante 2007). For a key to all its species see Skelley (2007b).

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 161, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175, http://zenodo.org/record/19369988