Family: Trogidae (carcass beetles)

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Greyish black, heavily sculptured, small to medium sized beetles. Adults and larvae feed on animal remains and carnivore and raptor faeces. Adults occur underneath the food source and scarab-like larvae in burrows in the soil also underneath it.

Omorgus asperulatus, 15mm. [image by M. Picker & C. Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa, used with permission].	Trox sulcatus, 11mm. [image by M. Picker & C. Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa, used with permission].