Platycraninae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Anartioptera
Magnordo: Polyorthoptera
Superordo: Orthopterida
Ordo: Phasmatodea
Subordo: Verophasmatodea
Infraordo: Anareolatae

Familia: Phasmatidae
Subfamilia: Platycraninae
Genera: Acanthograeffea – Apterograeffea – Davidrentzia – Echetlus – Elicius – Erastus – Graeffea – Megacrania – Ophicrania – Platycrana – Redtenbacherus – Xenomaches
Name
Platycraninae Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893

Platycrana viridana

The Platycraninae[1] are an anareolate subfamily of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. Their known distribution includes southern, southeast Asia and Australasia.[2]

Genera

The Phasmida Species File lists two tribes:[2]

monotypic tribe Platycranini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Platycrana Gray, 1835

Stephanacridini

Auth: Günther, 1953

Diagoras Stål, 1877 - monotypic Diagoras ephialtes Stål, 1877
Eucarcharus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907
Hermarchus Stål, 1875
Macrophasma Hennemann & Conle, 2006
Nesiophasma Günther, 1934
Phasmotaenia Navas, 1907
Sadyattes Stål, 1875
Stephanacris Redtenbacher, 1908

References

Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893) Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova (2)13 (33): 97.
Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 13 February 2021)