An alternative or historical variant spelling of Aphodius, a genus of small dung beetles, sometimes seen in older entomological texts.
Variant of 'Aphodius' from scientific nomenclature of the 18th-19th centuries. As taxonomy standardized, 'Aphodius' became the preferred spelling.
Old biology books sometimes used different spellings for the same organisms—'Aphodus' is a spelling ghost from when scientists were still standardizing the Latin names of every creature on Earth!
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