Platycrana

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

Platycrana
Platycrana viridana specimen from the private collection of Andrew Markey
Scientific classification
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

Platycrania Burmeister, 1838

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