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Aphodiinae
Sign in to saveAphodiinae is a subfamily of the scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae. Members of this subfamily are known commonly as the small dung beetles and many, but not all, are dung beetles. These beetles are found worldwide.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 492
- With media
- 36
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Collections
- UMNH, UCSB
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scarabaeidae
- Image
- Aphodius fimetarius1.jpg
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- taxon name
- Aphodiinae
- taxon rank
- subfamily
- Commons category
- Aphodiinae
- topic's main category
- Category:Aphodiinae
- taxon common name
- gjødselbiller
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Aphodiinae is a subfamily of the scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae. Members of this subfamily are known commonly as the small dung beetles and many, but not all, are dung beetles. These beetles are found worldwide.
These beetles are small scarab beetles, most less than 8 millimeters long. Many have small mandibles that are covered by a widened clypeus, the exoskeleton plate above the mouth. The feet are clawed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aphodiinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.