In any case, Louis Bedel 1911 used ictericus Laicharting as a synonym for Scarabaeus nitidulus Fabricius 1792. Because the description von Laicharting is older, the species is now named after him. However, this assessment is not generally accepted. Báguena Corella identified the species described here as Aphodius (Bodilus) nitidulus Fabricius = Scarabaeus nitidulus Fabricius, in a work about the scarab beetles in Spain in 1955. Corella expressed that in his opinion the species was wrongly named after Laicharting and only Paykull 1798 was the same beetle as Fabricius described. The clarification of the contradictions would be possible by considering the holotypes of Laicharting, whose whereabouts are not known. According to Dellacasa & Dellacasa, Scarabaeus ictericus Laicharting 1781 is the type species for the new genus Bodiloides, which is a species of the old genus Bodilus. It is called accordingly Bodiloides ictericus.
