Platystolus is a genus of European bush crickets in the tribe Ephippigerini, first described by Ignacio Bolívar in 1878.

[1] To date (2022), species have only been recorded from France and the Iberian Peninsula.

[2] The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists: Note: other species have been included in this genus,[3] but may be misplaced.

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