Platycrana

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Platycrana
Platycrana viridana Peleng.jpg
Platycrana viridana specimen from the private collection of Andrew Markey
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Phasmatidae
Subfamily: Platycraninae
Genus: Platycrana
Gray, 1835
Species:
P. viridana
Binomial name
Platycrana viridana
(Olivier, 1792)
Synonyms

PlatycraniaBurmeister, 1838

Platycrana [1] is the type genus of the reconstituted subfamily Platycraninae: which are stick insects from the Asia-Pacific region. They belong to the monotypic tribe PlatycraniniBrunner von Wattenwyl, 1893. [2]

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Species

This is a monotypic genus, with Platycrana viridana(Olivier, 1792): [3] originally described as "Mantis viridana" Olivier AG; the type locality in the Moluccas.

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