title: Phthersigena
text: # Phthersigena
  
  Phthersigena is an Australasian genus of praying mantids: in the subfamily Fulciniinae and tribe Paraoxypilini. It is one of several genera containing certain species called "unicorn mantids", due to a process on their heads.
  
  ## Species
  
  The Mantodea Species File lists:
  
  ### subgenus Glabromantis Sjostedt, 1918
  
  * Phthersigena minor Sjostedt, 1918
  * Phthersigena nebulosa Sjostedt, 1918
  
  ### subgenus Phthersigena Stal, 1871
  
  * Phthersigena centralis Giglio-Tos, 1915
  * Phthersigena conspersa Stal, 1871 - type species
  * Phthersigena insularis Beier, 1965
  * Phthersigena melania Tindale, 1923
  * Phthersigena pallidifemur Tindale, 1923
  * Phthersigena timorensis Beier, 1952
  * Phthersigena unicornis Tindale, 1923
  