Dichecephala ovata is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Free State, Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal) and Zimbabwe.
Adults reach a length of about . They are chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge. The club of the antennae is flavescent and the head and pronotum are covered with fine, although deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in width to their own diameter. The scutellum is finely but not densely punctate. The elytra are covered with deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and have on each elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row of punctures. The underside is coarsely punctate.