Belongs within: Aphodiinae.
The subgenus Podotenus of the genus Aphodius is an assemblage of aphodiine beetles found in Australia and South America that often have varicoloured elytra with alternately differentiated intervals.
<==Aphodius (Podotenus Schmidt 1914) [incl. Trogaphodius Balthasar 1965]CW92
|--A. (P.) baldiensis Blackburn 1904CW92
|--A. (P.) callabonnensis Blackburn 1895CW92
|--A. (P.) erosus Erichson 1842CW92
|--A. (P.) fulvientris Fairmaire 1860CW92
|--A. (P.) gracilipes Harold 1867CW92
|--A. (P.) insignor Blackburn 1904CW92
|--A. (P.) lindensis Blackburn 1892CW92
|--A. (P.) suberosus Blackburn 1892CW92
|--A. (P.) subfuscus Petrovitz 1975CW92
|--A. (P.) tuberculatus (Balthasar 1965) [=*Trogaphodius tuberculatus]CW92
`--A. (P.) victoriae Blackburn 1897CW92
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[CW92] Cassis, G., & T. A. Weir. 1992. Aphodiinae. In: Houston, W. W. K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea pp. 81–105. AGPS Press: Canberra.