Heteronychus Dejean, 1833

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 1-103 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.12.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14150175
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scientific name	Heteronychus Dejean, 1833
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(not Heteronychus Canestrini & Fanzago, 1876 , nor Heteronychus Seidlitz, 1887 ) [59 species and 8 additional subspecies].

Type species Geotrupes cricetus Hausmann, 1807 , by subsequent designation of Krell(2002).Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2020).

Heteronychus ( Heteronychidius) Paulian, 1954 , as Heteronychidius. Type species minutus Burmeister, 1847 , by original designation. Status revised to Heteronychus ( Heteronychidius) by Endrődi (1974e).