Platycleis Fieber. 1853. Lotos 3:149.
Type species: Locusta grisea Fabricius. 1781. Species Insectorum 1:359.
Platycleis Herman, O. 1874. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 24:199, 207.
Platycleis Finot. 1883. Les Orthoptères de la France 92, 114.
Platycleis Ragge. 1990. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 59(1):9, 13.
Platycleis Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé. 2012. Fauna d’Italia. Orthoptera 48:214.
Diagnosis: Body slender, medium sized; head large; fastigium of vertex distinct usually considerably wider than scape of antenna; pronotum depressed with median keel distinct at metazona; lateral lobes of pronotum with distinct or indistinct white stripe; hind tibia ventrally with four apical spurs, inner two being shorter, dorsally withy three spines; tegmina fully developed with broad apex, with dark spots, transverse veins light coloured; female subgenital plate bilobate, separated by shallow to deep furrow; ovipositor long, bright brown, compressed laterally and regularly curved and usually longer than pronotum; Sixth and seventh female sternites modified or unmodified; male last tergite with two processes; the apex of male cercus blunt, with single inner tooth.