Phyllocrania

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: Mantodea

Familia: Hymenopodidae
Subfamilia: Epaphroditinae
Genus: Phyllocrania
Species:
Name

Phyllocrania Burmeister, 1838

Primary references

Burmeister 1838: Handb. Ent., 2 (2), no. 1, 524, 548.

Two adult female Ghost Mantises (Phyllocrania paradoxa) with a 50 cent euro coin (diameter 24.25 mm) for size comparison

Phyllocrania is a genus of mantis in the family Hymenopodidae, containing three species, Phyllocrania illudens, Phyllocrania insignis, Phyllocrania paradoxa.
See also

List of mantis genera and species
Dead leaf mantis