Nialaphodius nigrita is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.
Description Adults reach a length of about . The body is strongly convex and the head is densely punctate. The pronotum has punctures of two sizes (fine and coarse) and a posterior margin without a posterior marginal line.
Distribution Nearctic: USA (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas). Neotropical: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Roraima, São Paulo), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenadines, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico (Chiapas, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Veracruz, Yucatán), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent, Suriname, Venezuela. Afrotropical: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Cape Verde, Madagascar, Mascarene, the Seychelles.
Life history Specimens have been collected in Urochloa brizantha pasture regions in cattle dung.
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