Asceles Redtenbacher, 1908, p. 493.
Type species. - Asceles malaccae (Saussure) [Necroscia malaccae], 1868, p. 69, designated by Brock, 1995, p. 87.

Main characteristics. -  Head depressed and elongate, usually unarmed; ocelli rarely distinct; thorax more or less granulate; mesonotum laterally unarmed; elytra bluntly humped or spiniform; wings long; hind margin of anal segment and operculum  in both sexes emarginate or excised; operculum of females plain and lanceolate.

Distribution. - Sri Lanka, Indo-China, the Indo-Malayan Archipelago up to the Moluccas, the Philippines, and New Guinea.

Represented in New Guinea by:
mancinus (Westwood), 1859, p. 144 %, pl. 14 fig. 3, (Necroscia)
    [BMNH].
     Asceles mancinus (Westwood) Redtenbacher, 1908, p. 500.
rulanda Redtenbacher, 1908, p. 497 &% [NHMW, MNHN, 
     ZMHB].
glaber Günther, 1938, p. 135 &% [NZSI, SMTD]. (Location “New 
     Guinea” probably in error, Brock, 1995, p 87).