Patanga (grasshopper)
Appearance
Patanga | |
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Bombay locust, Patanga succincta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Caelifera |
Family: | Acrididae |
Subfamily: | Cyrtacanthacridinae |
Tribe: | Cyrtacanthacridini |
Genus: | Patanga Uvarov, 1923 |
Type species | |
Gryllus succinctus Johannson, 1763
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Patanga is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.[1][2] Species are distributed throughout Asia: from India, China, Japan, Indochina and western Malesia.[1] The genus was named by Boris Uvarov in 1923,[3] with the type species the economically significant Bombay locust, which has also been placed in genus Nomadacris.
Species
[edit]As of 2022[update], the Orthoptera Species File lists:[1]
- Patanga apicerca Huang, 1982 — China
- Patanga avis Rehn & Rehn, 1941 — Philippines
- Patanga humilis Bi, 1986 — Tibet
- Patanga japonica (Bolívar, 1898) — India, Vietnam, Korea, Japan (poss. incomplete)
- Patanga luteicornis (Serville, 1838) — Java
- Patanga succincta (Johannson, 1763) — India, SE Asia, Japan
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Patanga Uvarov, 1923". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ^ Uvarov BP (1923) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11: 143.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Patanga at Wikimedia Commons