''Platycrana'' is the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...

of the reconstituted subfamily

Platycraninae The PlatycraninaeBrunner von Wattenwyl (1893) ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genova'' (2)13 (33): 97. are an anareolate subfamily of stick insects in the family Phasmatidae. Their known distribution includes southe ...

: which are stick insects from the Asia-Pacific region. They belong to the

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

Platycranini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893.Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 14 February 2021)
/ref> There is a monotypic species: ''Platycrana viridana'' (Olivier, 1792):Phasmida Species File: species ''Platycrana viridana'' (Olivier, 1792) (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 14 February 2021)
/ref> originally described as "''Mantis viridana''" Olivier AG, with the type locality in the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located ...

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q14665440 Phasmatodea genera Phasmatodea of Asia