- small dung beetles
- Dungkäfer
- afodijai
- plugowate
While a good proportion, probably the majority, develop in dung they are otherwise very diverse in habitats and ecology; many are detritivores as well as dung feeders, some are saprophagous or fungivores, while some may be predatory and there are many inquilines with ants and termites. Some adults have reduced mandibles and are thought to feed primarily on yeast- or bacteria-rich fluids in dung and decaying organic material.
Formerly Aphodiinae, subfamily of Scarabaeidae.