Orodaliscoides Schmidt, 1913

Dellacasa, Marco, Dellacasa, Giovanni & Gordon, Robert D., 2012, Systematic revision of the genus Orodaliscoides Schmidt, 1913 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Insecta Mundi 2012 (269), pp. 1-9 : 2

Genus Orodaliscoides Schmidt, 1913

Aphodius (Orodaliscoides) Schmidt, 1913: 145 ; 1922: 195; Dellacasa 1988: 388; Dellacasa and Gordon 1997: 368.

Orodaliscoides ; Dellacasa et al. 2001: 215; Smith and Skelley 2007: 27

Type species. Aphodius rugosiceps Harold, 1859 (subsequent designation of Dellacasa 1988: 388).

Description. Medium size species (length 5.0-8.0 mm); elongate, convex, shiny, glabrous or nearly glabrous. Brownish-red or brownish-yellow with paler elytra. Head with epistome gibbous, coarsely punctured; clypeus anteriorly subtruncate or feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather thickly bordered, edge upturned, glabrous or ciliate; genae obtusely round, elongately ciliate, protruding from the eyes; frontal suture distinct, not tuberculate. Pronotum transverse, strongly convex, regularly rather densely punctured; lateral margins arcuate, bordered, edge elongately ciliate; hind angles round or obtusely round; base distinctly bordered. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra elongate, convex; epipleural carina elongately ciliate; striae deep, not or feebly crenulate; interstriae moderately convex; sparsely but distinctly punctured, sometimes sparsely pubescent laterally and toward apex. Fore tibiae with four or three distal teeth and proximally faintly serrulate on outer margin; upper side smooth. Middle and hind tibiae with many long yellowish setae on outer face and inner margin, and with strong transverse carinae on outer face; fimbriate with apical spinules rather stout, irregularly or alternately unequal. Middle and hind tarsi with many very elongate setae on apex of each segment. Pygidium finely, irregularly and sparsely granulose, each granule with a recumbent and irregularly elongate seta; its apical margin with few, dense and moderately elongate cilia. Sexual dimorphism shown in males by fore tibiae spur stouter and obtusely truncate apically; by relatively more sparse punctation of pronotum; sometimes by inferior spur of middle tibiae apically truncate, as well as by apical margin of hind tibiae denticulate before inferior spur; by metasternal plate more distinctly grooved. Aedeagus with paramera strongly curved and acuminate apically. Epipharynx widely transverse; anterior margin inwardly arcuate and with a belt of strong spinules; epitorma conical and elongate, basally widened; corypha more or less strongly prominent, with two median spiculae, sometimes lacking, and with an apical clump of short celtes; pedia pubescent with rather elongate spines immixed; chaetopariae rather dense and elongate.