Platylabia is a genus of earwigs, the sole member of the subfamily Platylabiinae.[1] It was cited by Srivastava in Part 2 of Fauna of India.[2] It was also cited at an earlier date by Steinmann in his publication, The Animal Kingdom in 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1993,[3] and by Chen & Ma in Fauna Sinica in 2004.[4]