Scarabaeine dung beetles (Order: Coleoptera; Family: Scarabaeidae; Subfamily: Scarabaeinae) have received a great deal of attention in recent decades. Much of the attention stems from programmes to augment control of dung and dung-breeding flies in farm rangeland by introducing European and African dung beetle taxa into Australia, the Americas and, lately, New Zealand. Research on dung beetle ecology to assist selection of species for intro duction has, subsequently, developed in several directions. Dung beetles have been widely used to bioassay non-target effects of livestock pesticides in farm rangeland. They have also been widely used as biological indicators in ecological impact assessments (EIA) and studies of farm health, as well as in conservation studies investigating the effects of habitat modification, habitat fragmentation and loss of mammals producing preferred dung types. Therefore, an atlas of the dung beetle species found in South Africa, Bot swana and Namibia, is long overdue. This atlas provides photographs of over 540 species together with notes on their taxonomy, distribution, ecology and conservation status. As the alpha taxonomy is incomplete, the atlas is also incomplete, although it does comprise accounts for most species in eight out of nine tribes of dung beetles found in the target region (Onthophagini excepted). Al though numbers of species and genera are quoted for the nine tribes, it should be noted that these are frequently changing due to revisions of pre-existing nomenclature or addition of newly described genera and species.