Heterochelus capicola is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Northern Cape).
Adults reach a length of about . Males are black, with the elytra chocolate-brown. The scutellum, abdomen, and propygidium are clothed with dense flavescent scales. The pygidium is also scaly but has a triangular tomentose patch without scales in the median part of the base. The elytra are covered with dense appressed greyish hairs.