author(s)
Dr. Ramesh D, Dr. Vinuthan MK, Dr. Chandrashekara N and Dr. Chandramohan S

abstract
Dung Beetles are known to be the natural scavengers, they like dung – they are Coprophagous (dung eating) insects. These Beetles fed on the dung of Mega variety of Fauna (huge variety of mammals) in the present study Morphometric analysis of Oryctes rhinoceros, Onthophagus bonasus Fabricius dung beetles were carried out. Though both the beetles were found to belong to the same family called Scarabaeinae. The outcome of the study revealed that the Morphometric values of the Oryctes rhinoceros were larger value due to its larger size. However the present study paves the way for the further study of the dung beetle species existing in the geographical locations of India. Further this would be the basal data in identification of the species of the dung beetles prevalent in the Karnataka.