author(s)
Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate

abstract
This paper communicates the addition to the Dung beetle fauna of Maharashtra. Total five dung beetles Onthophagus (Serrophorus) rectecornutus Lansberge, 1883; Onthophagus (Proagoderus) amplexus Sharp, 1875; Scarabaeus (Escarabaeus) brahminus (Castelnau, 1840); Anomalochela bicolor (Brenske, 1829) and Apogonia mangalorensis Moser, 1919 from two subfamilies of scarabaeidae have been reported for the first time from this region.