Dung Beetles is a taxonomic and ecological construct within entomology referring to beetle species in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea that are distinguished by their specialized feeding and reproductive behaviors centered on the consumption, burial, and utilization of mammalian fecal matter for nutrition and brood provisioning.
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