The Taxonomic Revolution of New World dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

After almost two decades of stagnation, the taxonomy New World Scarabaeinae dung beetles has since 1988 been going through a period great effervescence. In last 35 years, 81 complete revisions and 69 supplements have produced by 86 authors based in 15 countries, addressing taxonomic status 950 species. This is what we christen as Taxonomic Revolution beetles. We review history products this revolution, explore its causes apparent exceptionalism among most other Coleoptera groups, point to many challenges that still face scarabaeine taxonomists. An aspect interest ecologists coevolution with call Ecological beetles, i.e., similar expansion ecological studies about these organisms. argue it continuous feedback between simultaneous processes enabled each them exist flourish: without Revolution, could not existed, vice-versa. Ecologists taxonomists are partners scientific enterprise, symbionts one may say.