Catantopinae | |
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Catantops humeralis: South Africa | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Subfamily: | Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 |
Tribes | |
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The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family Acrididae. [1] Genera such as Macrotona may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", [2] but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamilies, including the genus Melanoplus from the Melanoplinae.
Distribution: India, Indo-China
Auth. Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893; distribution: Madagascar, India, East Asia
Distribution: South-East Asia
Auth.: Johnston, 1956; distribution: tropical Africa including Madagascar
Many other genera are not yet assigned to tribes.