Diabolocatantops Innotabilis
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''Diabolocatantops'' is a genus of grasshoppers (
Caelifera The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers ( Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets ( Tridactyloidea). ...
:
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 ...
), in the subfamily
Catantopinae The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family (biology), family Acrididae. Genera such as ''Macrotona'' may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamili ...
and tribe
Catantopini Catantopini is a tribe in the subfamily Catantopinae, a group of grasshoppers found in Africa, Asia and Australia. Subtribes & genera The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following (genera incomplete): * subtribe Apotropina Key, 1993 - ...
, erected by
Nick Jago Nicholas Jago (born 19 July 1976) is an English musician, best known as the former drummer and founding member of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 628-9 Early life Jago was ...
in 1984.Jago N (1984) ''Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc.'' 110(3): 295. Species can be found in Africa, India, China and
Indo-China Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina and the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to th ...
.Orthoptera Species File:genus ''Diabolocatantops'' Jago, 1984
(retrieved 1 November 2024)


Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following: #'' Diabolocatantops axillaris'' Thunberg, 1815 - type species (as ''Gryllus axillaris'' Thunberg = ''D. axillaris axillaris'') #'' Diabolocatantops consobrinus'' Karny, 1907 #'' Diabolocatantops innotabilis'' Walker, 1870 #'' Diabolocatantops pinguis'' Stål, 1861 #'' Diabolocatantops pulchellus'' Walker, 1870 #'' Diabolocatantops rufipennis'' Li & Jin, 1984 #'' Diabolocatantops signatipes'' Walker, 1870 #'' Diabolocatantops sukhadae'' Bhowmik, 1986


Gallery

File:Devil grasshopper (Diabolocatantops axillaris axillaris).jpg, ''D. axillaris'' File:Diabolocatantops pinguis 7372.jpg, ''D. pinguis''


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* * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10470317 Acrididae genera Catantopinae Insects of Africa Insects of Asia