Denticnema squamosa is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape, Northern Cape).
Adults reach a length of about . The head and pronotum are black, the latter clothed with dense black hairs interspersed with white, lanceolate not very dense scales. The elytra are reddish brown, clothed with a dense but short black pubescence, and with somewhat closely set, and rather large ovate scales, white in males and flavescent in females.