''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
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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''
References
External links
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Acrididae genera
Catantopinae
Insects of Africa
Insects of Asia