Heterochelus rufimanus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
Adults reach a length of about . Males are black, with the front legs reddish, and as often as not with the elytra chestnut-brown, or chestnut-red. The elytra have a narrow apical margin of flavescent or yellow scales, the scutellum and abdomen are densely scaly, but the pygidium is glabrous and shining, and there is only a very narrow band of scales on the propygidium. Females are similar to males, but the elytra are covered with appressed, somewhat remote hairs, and have a few somewhat squamose ones along the suture.