Aruanoidea Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893, p. 84.
Type species. - Aruanoidea aruana (Westwood) [Necroscia aruana] designated by Rehn, 1904, p. 78.

Main characteristics. -  Head elongate and depressed; ocelli distinctly present; mesothorax totally granulate; elytra and wings long; fore femora sharply carinate; anal segment in both sexes, but especially in males, profoundly emarginate; in females operculum narrow, corneous, emarginate, and extended beyond abdomen.

Distribution. - Indo-China, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea, the Aru Islands, New Britain, and Australia.

Represented in New Guinea by:
aruana (Westwood), 1859, p. 134 &%, pl. 39 fig. 4 (Necroscia)
     [OXUM] New Guinea, New Britain and Aru Islands.
     Aruanoidea aruana (Westwood) Rehn, 1904, p. 78.
     Aruanoidea bipunctata Redtenbacher, 1908, p. 524 & [NHMW].
     (synonymised by Günther, 1935a, p. 85).
flavoguttulata Redtenbacher, 1908, p. 524 % [ZMUH].