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Catantopini

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Catantopini
Male Catantops stramineus photographed near Whydah, Benin, in 2006
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Catantopinae
Tribe: Catantopini
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893[1]
Subtribes

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Catantopini is a tribe in the subfamily Catantopinae, a group of grasshoppers found in Africa, Asia and Australia.[2]

Subtribes & genera

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Buforania crassa
Catantops humeralis
Diabolocatantops axillaris axillaris
Bark Mimicking Grasshopper, Coryphistes ruricola

The Orthoptera Species File lists the following (genera incomplete):

Subtribes E-

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Goniaea sp.
Pardillana sp.
Macrotona australis, female

Subtribes P-

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Sigaus piliferus
Phaulacridium marginale
Minyacris nana, Australia
Rectitropis, Australia

subtribe not placed

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Xenocatantops humilis Borneo.

References

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  1. ^ Révision du système des orthoptères et description des espèces rapportées par M. Leonardo Fea de Birmanie. KB von Wattenwyl, L Fea - 1893
  2. ^ Orthoptera Species File: Catantopini
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