Biology:Patanga (grasshopper)

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Short description: Genus of grasshoppers

Patanga
Patanga succincta (40890841064).jpg
Patanga succincta
Scientific classification e
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

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D.. "genus Patanga Uvarov, 1923". Orthoptera Species File. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112497. 
  2. Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D.. "subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae Kirby, 1910". Orthoptera Species File. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112281. 
  3. Uvarov BP (1923) Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9 11: 143.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q10621613 entry