Genus Saprositellus Balthasar, 1967 Diagnosis Length 2.8 – 3.0 mm. Body elongate, cylindrical, convex, piceous. Head punctate, with wrinkled area just after anterior margin; clypeal margin medially thickened and acuminate, downwardly bent; margin sinuate, lateral angles with group of denticles. Pronotum tumid anteriorly, punctate, with shallow and short posteromedial longitudinal furrow and two lateral fovea; sides sharply declined; lateral margin ending in obtuse teeth. Elytra with striae coarsely punctured; interstriae convex to carinate. Remarks Saprositellus has five recognized species. This genus has been recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama and Peru (Stebnicka 2003d; Skelley 2007b). For a key to all its species see Skelley (2007b). Key to species of Saprositellus from Brazil (adapted from Skelley 2007b) (Portuguese version in Supp. file 1) 1. Interstriae convex (Fig. 27B). Pronotum without posterior marginal line ....................................... ..................................................................................... S. denticulatus Balthasar, 1967 (Fig. 27B) – Interstriae carinate (Fig. 27A). Pronotum with posterior marginal line .......................................... ...................................................................................... S. ariquemes Stebnicka, 2003 (Fig. 27A)

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 162, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1038.3175