Cranidium

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title: "Cranidium" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["phasmatodea-genera", "monotypic-insect-genera", "phasmatodea-of-south-america"] description: "Genus of true bugs" topic_path: "general/phasmatodea-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranidium" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of true bugs ::

| genus = Cranidium | image = Cranadium gibbosum Männchen.JPG | image_caption = Cranidium gibbosum male | species = gibbosum | parent_authority = Westwood, 1843 | authority = Westwood, 1843 | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = Phasmilliger Carrera, 1960

Cranidium is an monotypic genus of stick insects in the monotypic tribe Cranidiini. The single species Cranidium gibbosum has been recorded from northern Brazil, French Guiana, and Surinam. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Cranidium_gibbosum_Weibchen.JPG" caption="''C. gibbosum'' female"] ::

References

References

1. Westwood (1843) ''The Arcana Museum of Nature'' 2: 49.
2. [http://phasmida.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1201034 Phasmida Species File (Version 5.0/5.0 retrieved 3 July 2021)]

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