Distribution: All of the species occur in South America, and Bothynus complanus Burmeister reaches Honduras.

Composition: 25 species (Martínez 1983; Endrödi 1985a).

Diagnosis: Bothynus species are distinguished by the presence of tridentate mandibles extending laterally beyond the clypeus, clypeus strongly contracted to a bidentate apex, nearly smooth elytra, quadridentate protibiae, and pronotum with a subapical tubercle followed by a large fovea.

Larvae: there has been nothing published on the immature stages or biology of any of the species.

Literature cited:
Endrödi, S. 1985a. The Dynastinae of the World. Dr. W. Junk Publisher, Dordrecht. 800 pp., 46 plates.

Martínez, A. 1983. Nueva especie de Bothynus de Brasil (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Pentodontini). Revista Brasileira de Entomología 27: 297-300.