Dichelus vittatus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Cape).
Adults reach a length of about . They are black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and the legs chestnut-brown or chestnut-red. The head and pronotum are clothed with greyish or slightly flavescent scales which become much denser in the posterior part. The elytra have three longitudinal bands of sub-flavescent scales. The pygidium is scaly.