Heteronyx

This article is about a genus of scarab beetles. For a name used formerly to describe a genus of birds, see Heteromirafra. For a genus of spider wasps, see Pompilinae.

Heteronyx is a genus of beetles in the family Melolonthidae found in Australia, Melanesia and South America.^[1][2]

Heteronyx
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Melolonthinae
Genus:	Heteronyx

Over three hundred species have been described in the genus Heteronyx, including:

• Heteronyx queenlandicus