Heterochelus Burmeister, 1844

[154 species and 3 additional subspecies].

Type species not designated; Burmeister (1844) placed the 54 species of the genus Heterochelus in several informal groups and for one of the groups he designated Melolontha dentipes Fabricius, 1781 as the type. This does not represent a valid type species fixation for Heterochelus (Bouchard et al. 2024) and Melolontha dentipes Fabricius, 1781 is the type species of Dichelus Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville, 1828 .