''Calliptamus'' is a genus of

grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are amongst what are possibly the most ancient living groups of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grassh ...

s in the family

Acrididae Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known because all locusts (swarming grasshoppers) are of the Acrididae. The subfamily Oedi ...

. Species of ''Calliptamus'' are found in Africa and the northern

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The ...

(mainland Europe not including Scandinavia) through to Japan.

Species

Species within this genus include: # '' Calliptamus abbreviatus'' Ikonnikov, 1913 # '' Calliptamus balucha'' Uvarov, 1938 # '' Calliptamus barbarus'' (Costa, 1836) # '' Calliptamus cicatricosus'' Bolívar, 1889 # '' Calliptamus coelesyriensis'' Giglio-Tos, 1893 # '' Calliptamus cyrenaicus'' Jago, 1963 # '' Calliptamus deserticola'' Vosseler, 1902 # '' Calliptamus italicus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Italian locust) type species (as ''Gryllus italicus'' L) # '' Calliptamus madeirae'' Uvarov, 1937 (Madeira Pincer Grasshopper) # '' Calliptamus montanus'' Chopard, 1937 # '' Calliptamus plebeius'' (Walker, 1870) # '' Calliptamus siciliae'' Ramme, 1927 (Pygmy Pincer Grasshopper) # '' Calliptamus tenuicercis'' Tarbinsky, 1930 # '' Calliptamus testaceus'' Walker, 1870 # '' Calliptamus turanicus'' Tarbinsky, 1930 # '' Calliptamus wattenwylianus'' Pantel, 1896 # † '' Calliptamus strausi'' Harz, 1973

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2934232 Acrididae Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Asia Orthoptera of Europe Caelifera genera