Heteronychus Dejean, 1833

(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).