Carinaulus Tesař, 1945 (Tesar, 1945)

Carinaulus Tesař, 1945 View in CoL

Carinaulus ( Tesař, 1945) Tesař (1945): 66. Type species: Aphodius vseteckai Tesař, 1945 = Carinaulus vseteckai ( Tesař, 1945). Elevated to genus by Dellacasa et al. (2001): 113. View in CoL

Aphodius ( Carinaulus) Tesař, 1945 Tesař (1945): 66. Type species: Aphodius vseteckai Tesař, 1945 = Carinaulus vseteckai ( Tesař, 1945). View in CoL

Aphodius ( Oxyaphodius) Balthasar, 1965 Balthasar (1965): 314. Type species: Aphodius ( Oxyaphodius) sikkimensis Balthasar, 1965 = Carinaulus sikkimensis ( Balthasar, 1965). syn. by Červenka (2000): 30. View in CoL

Aphodius ( Carinaulus) vseteckai Tesař, 1945 View in CoL

Diagnosis

The members of the genus Carinaulus can be distinguished from other Aphodiinae taxa by the following combination of characteristics [modified from Červenka (2000) and Dellacasa et al. (2001)]: clypeus wide, margin weakly to moderately concave at the middle; with or without cephalic tubercles (occasionally in sexual diamorphism); elytral striae wide and deep, strial puncture distinctly crenulated; intervals tectiform or carinate; sixth and eighth intervals joined before pre-apical area; carina generally lacking in apical area of elytral intervals; meso- and metatibia apical spinules more or less equal in length, exceptionally unequal in length.