Patanga (grasshopper)

Patanga
Bombay locust, Patanga succincta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Cyrtacanthacridinae
Tribe: Cyrtacanthacridini
Genus:
Uvarov, 1923
Type species
Gryllus succinctus
Johannson, 1763

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

As of 2022, the Orthoptera Species File lists:[1]

  1. Patanga apicerca Huang, 1982 — China
  2. Patanga avis Rehn & Rehn, 1941 — Philippines
  3. Patanga humilis Bi, 1986 — Tibet
  4. Patanga japonica (Bolívar, 1898) — India, Vietnam, Korea, Japan (poss. incomplete)
  5. Patanga luteicornis (Serville, 1838) — Java
  6. Patanga succincta (Johannson, 1763) — India, SE Asia, Japan

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. ^ Uvarov BP (1923) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11: 143.
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