Hechinoschema Thomson, 1857

Hechinoschema Thomson, 1857: 181 .

Type species: Hechinoschema spinosum Thomson, 1857, by monotypy.

Distribution. Bangladesh, China (new country record), India.

Remarks. This genus currently contains a single species, i.e. Hechinoschema spinosum Thomson, 1857 . It resembles some species of Echinovelleda due to the armed elytral appearance. However it can be recognized by the pedicel not projecting on inner side, pronotal discal calli highly reduced, almost imperceptible, elytral main tubercles, especially those ones on the sutural rows and middle rows, are almost regular in shape, number and position, and subsymmetrical along the suture (cf. Fig. 1), and elytral pubescent patterns consist of single type of pubescence.