Platychelus hoploides is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in South Africa (Western Cape).
Adults reach a length of about . Males are black, with a faint aeneous tinge. The elytra are either fuscous, dark chestnut, or reddish brown, but with a slight metallic tinge. The head is granulose and the pronotum is very closely scabrose, except in the median posterior part, where the punctures are rounder and clothed with a very dense, slightly flavescent, or sometimes fulvous, erect pubescence. The scutellum is clothed with a long, appressed pubescence. The elytra are covered with very closely set scabrose punctures each bearing an appressed greyish hair forming a dense pubescence. The pygidial part and abdomen are also similarly punctured and equally pubescent. Females are similar to males, and only recognisable by the shape of the pygidium, which is a little convex, and vertical. Generally, the appressed pubescence on the elytra is not quite so dense as in males.