Oniticellini

{{Short description|Tribe of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Liatongus mergacerus Hope, 1831 male (4712442634).jpg

| image_caption = Liatongus mergacerus

| taxon = Oniticellini

| authority = d´Orbigny, 1916

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = 28, see text

| subdivision_ref = {{cite web|title=Oniticellini - Wikispecies|url=https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oniticellini|website=species.wikimedia.org|accessdate=22 November 2016}}

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Oniticellini are a tribe of scarab beetles, in the true dung beetle subfamily (Scarabaeinae).{{cite journal|last1=Philips|first1=T. Keith|title=Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence|journal=ZooKeys|date=2016|issue=579|pages=9–57|doi=10.3897/zookeys.579.6183|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6183|accessdate=22 November 2016|pmc=4829968|pmid=27110200|doi-access=free}} Nearly all species of this tribe feed on and nest in dung, mainly that of large herbivores. Most are tunnelers; dung is buried at the ends of tunnels dug below a dropping, and used as food by both adults and larvae; others, known as dwellers (including Oniticellus and Tragiscus) make brood cavities within or just beneath the dung.