The genus Ancylotropus Cameron includes six valid species and numerous undescribed species from sub-Saharan Africa. Among the described species, four are from Southeast Asia, including Ancylotropus cariniscutis Cameron, A. keralensis Girish Kumar and Narendran, A. manipurensis (Clausen), and A. montanus (Girault), while two are from Madagascar, A. ivondroi (Risbec) and A. seyrigi (Risbec). Previous molecular analyses have not recovered the monophyly of Ancylotropus, although they are consistently nested within the Schizaspidia clade. We used molecular and morphological analyses to determine the monophyly of species currently assigned to the genus Ancylotropus. The monophyly of Ancylotropus was never recovered. Three distinct clades of ‘Ancylotropus’ are recognized: the African Tutucharis n. gen. and Madagascan Ancylotropus are monophyletic, but form paraphyletic groups leading to a monophyletic Southeast Asian clade that includes a few new species of Ancylotropus from Africa, A. montanus, the Asian Ancylotropus and all but one of the other genera in the Schizaspidia clade. With the recognition of Tutucharis, there are now seven genera within the Schizaspidia clade, including Eucharissa Westwood, Pogonocharis Heraty, Saccharissa Kirby, Schizaspidia Westwood, Thoracanthoides Girault, and Ancylotropus, with the latter further partitioned into four species groups. The sub-saharan African taxa previously classified under Ancylotropus fall into two distinct groups: one now recognized as a new genus, Tutucharis, and another, the Ancylotropus neotropus group from sub-Saharan Africa (four undescribed species) that groups with the Asian Ancylotropus. Based on morphological characteristics, Tutucharis is recognized as a distinct new genus, encompassing 11 new species.