The species of the genus Odontolabis are large (males up to 9 cm), oblong and shiny. Usually males have more or less enlarged head and jaws. The head and the pronotum usually are black, while elytra are often more or less brownish or yellowish. In some species the shape of the male's jaws have several different forms (polymorphism ).
The species of this genus are native to Southeast Asia .
There are approximately 61 species and subspecies in this genus:
Odontolabis alces (Fabricius , 1775) - Philippines Odontolabis antilope von Rothenburg, 1901 - Borneo , Sumatra Odontolabis brookeana (Vollenhoven, 1861) - Borneo , Sumatra , Java Odontolabis burmeisteri (Hope , 1841) - India Odontolabis camela (Olivier, 1789) - Philippines Odontolabis castelnaudi Parry, 1862 - Malaya, Borneo, SumatraOdontolabis cuvera Hope, 1842 – India , Vietnam Odontolabis dalmani (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - SumatraOdontolabis delesserti (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - IndiaOdontolabis eremicola Mollenkamp, 1905 - BorneoOdontolabis femoralis Waterhouse, 1887 – Thailand , BorneoOdontolabis gazella (Fabricius , 1787) - Philippines, Malaya, Borneo, SumatraOdontolabis hitam Nagai, 1986 - SumatraOdontolabis imperialis Mollenkamp, 1904 - Philippines, Sarawak , Sabah Odontolabis lacordairei (Vollenhoven, 1861) - SumatraOdontolabis latipennis (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - MalayaOdontolabis leuthneri Boileau, 1897 - BorneoOdontolabis lowei Parry, 1873 - Borneo, Sumatra, JavaOdontolabis ludekingi (Vollenhoven, 1861) – Malaya, SumatraOdontolabis macrocephala Lacroix, 1984 - Thailand , VietnamOdontolabis micros de Lisle, 1970 - Sulawesi Odontolabis mollenkampi Fruhstorfer, 1898 - SumatraOdontolabis mouhoti Parry, 1864 - IndochinaOdontolabis pareoxa Bomans & Ratti, 1973 - IndiaOdontolabis picea Bomans, 1986 - SumatraOdontolabis platynota (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Burma, Laos , VietnamOdontolabis quadrimaculata Kriesche, 1920 - SumatraOdontolabis relucens Mollenkamp, 1900 - SumatraOdontolabis siva (Hope & Westwood, 1845) – India, Taiwan, MalayaOdontolabis sommeri Parry, 1862 – Borneo, SumatraOdontolabis spectabilis Boileau, 1902 - SumatraOdontolabis stevensi Thomson, 1862 – Sulawesi, Timor Odontolabis versicolor (Didier, 1931) - IndiaOdontolabis vollenhoveni Parry, 1864 - BorneoOdontolabis wollastoni Parry, 1864 – Malaya, SumatraOdontolabis yasuokai Mizunuma, 1994 - Sumatra