Major male Aegidiellus alatus	Minor male Aegidiellus alatus
Female Aegidiellus alatus
Photos by: Julia Colby
Distribution: Neotropical realm. Brazil.
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Description: Length 9-11 mm. Pronotum with median, laterally compressed boss or horn at anterior edge. Females with fovea posterior to horn or boss. Major males with erect horns; horns 90° from plane of disc, widely separated, slightly recurved at apices; horns reduced to rounded tubercles in minor males. Area between horns slightly depressed to foveate.
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Biology: Life history is unknown.

Larvae: The larval stage is unknown.

Revision or Synopsis:
Paulian, R.1984. Les Orphnidae Américains (Coléoptères, Scarabaeiodea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S) 20:65-92.

Composition: 1 species.

Species:
Aegidiellus alatus  (Laporte, 1840)

References:
Laporte, F. L. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères, avec une Introduction Renfermant l’Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M. Brullé, volume 2. P. Duménil, Paris. 564 pp.

Paulian, R.1984. Les Orphnidae Américains (Coléoptères, Scarabaeiodea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S) 20:65-92.