Hoplebaea tessellatula is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal).
Adults reach a length of about . They are fuscous brown, with the head black and the legs, especially the anterior ones, redder, covered on the upper and underside, and also on the legs with dense, ashy-grey, minute, appressed, slightly squamulose hairs. The pronotum has cicatricose marks and a median puncture from which springs a minute hair. The scutellum is covered with similar hairs and the elytra are somewhat plainly tri-costate on each side and have in addition a supra-marginal costule, they are finely coriaceous, and very densely hairy, but these hairs are sometimes wanting on the costae at regular intervals, and gives thus to the elytra a sub-tessellated appearance.