diff --git a/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi b/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
index 17f8f7f2..ad6ae4d4 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ from typing import (
     Any,
     Literal,
     Protocol,
+    SupportsIndex,
     TypedDict,
     TypeVar,
+    overload,
 )
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -421,6 +423,20 @@ class WriteExcelBuffer(WriteBuffer[bytes], Protocol):
 
 FilePath: TypeAlias = str | PathLike[str]
 
+_T_co = TypeVar("_T_co", covariant=True)
+
+class SequenceNotStr(Protocol[_T_co]):
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, index: SupportsIndex, /) -> _T_co: ...
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, index: slice, /) -> Sequence[_T_co]: ...
+    def __contains__(self, value: object, /) -> bool: ...
+    def __len__(self) -> int: ...
+    def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[_T_co]: ...
+    def index(self, value: Any, /, start: int = 0, stop: int = ...) -> int: ...
+    def count(self, value: Any, /) -> int: ...
+    def __reversed__(self) -> Iterator[_T_co]: ...
+
 IndexLabel: TypeAlias = Hashable | Sequence[Hashable]
 Label: TypeAlias = Hashable | None
 Level: TypeAlias = Hashable | int
@@ -492,14 +508,7 @@ np_ndarray_str: TypeAlias = npt.NDArray[np.str_]
 IndexType: TypeAlias = slice | np_ndarray_anyint | Index | list[int] | Series[int]
 MaskType: TypeAlias = Series[bool] | np_ndarray_bool | list[bool]
 UsecolsArgType: TypeAlias = (
-    MutableSequence[str]
-    | tuple[str, ...]
-    | Sequence[int]
-    | Series
-    | Index
-    | np.ndarray
-    | Callable[[HashableT], bool]
-    | None
+    SequenceNotStr[Hashable] | range | AnyArrayLike | Callable[[HashableT], bool] | None
 )
 # Scratch types for generics
 
diff --git a/tests/test_io.py b/tests/test_io.py
index 52881916..7e981a07 100644
--- a/tests/test_io.py
+++ b/tests/test_io.py
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def test_clipboard():
     )
     if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
         pd.read_clipboard(names="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
-        pd.read_clipboard(usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[arg-type] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
+        pd.read_clipboard(usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
 
 
 def test_clipboard_iterator():
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ def test_types_read_csv() -> None:
 
         if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
             pd.read_csv(path, names="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
-            pd.read_csv(path, usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[arg-type] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
+            pd.read_csv(path, usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
 
         tfr1: TextFileReader = pd.read_csv(path, nrows=2, iterator=True, chunksize=3)
         tfr1.close()
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ def test_read_table():
         )
         if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
             pd.read_table(path, names="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
-            pd.read_table(path, usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[arg-type] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
+            pd.read_table(path, usecols="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]
 
 
 def test_read_table_iterator():