Platychelus dispar 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 brownish red. They are clothed on the pronotum, under side and legs with a very dense ashy-grey pubescence. The elytra have a short but deep, basal, supra-humeral impression, and are slightly impressed longitudinally along the median part of the suture, they are moderately closely punctured, each puncture bearing an appressed short blackish hair.