Heterochelus pavidus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Gauteng).
Adults reach a length of about . Males are dark greenish bronze with the elytra and legs chestnut-brown or reddish. The pronotum is strongly scabrose and clothed with a long, fine, greyish or sub-flavescent upright pubescence. The scutellum is closely scaly and the elytra are deeply sulcate, the sulci filled with greyish-flavescent or flavescent closely set scales. The propygidium has a narrow band of flavous scales and the pygidium is covered with a velvety black-brown tomentum reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length, and then to the apex with closely set, small yellow scales. Females differ from males in the less dense rows of more hair-like scales on the elytra, and the pygidium bears two basal brown velvety patches.