The Commission has ruled that the generic name Ataenius Harold, 1867 is conserved for a world-wide and well-known genus of scarab beetles (family scarabaeidae) by giving it precedence over the older name Aphodinus Motschulsky, 1862.
Ataenius Harold, 1867 (Insecta, Coleoptera): precedence given over Aphodinus Motschulsky, 1862," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67(1), 97-98, (1 March 2010). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v67i1.a10