[2] The middle and hind legs are very long; the relatively short body is laterally compressed and has flattened sides.

Relative to other dung beetles they are of small to moderate size (7–10 mm long).

They are all ball-rollers: a ball is fashioned from the dung, and rolled away from it by a pair of beetles; the male pushes with the back legs and the female pulls with the front legs.

A short tunnel is dug in the soil, and the ball is buried at the end of it.

The brood is then abandoned; after hatching, larvae feed on the dung ball.