| Platycrana | |
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| Platycrana viridana specimen from the private collection of Andrew Markey | |
Scientific classification 
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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
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| Binomial name | |
| Platycrana viridana (Olivier, 1792)
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| Synonyms | |
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Platycrania Burmeister, 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 Platycranini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.[2]
- ^ Gray GR (1835) Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 36.
- ^ Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 14 February 2021)