Catantopinae

Catantopinae
Catantops humeralis: South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Catantopinae
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893
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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.

  1. ^ Orthoptera Species File: subfamily Catantopinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Version 5.0/5.0, retrieved 22 November 2018)
  2. ^ "Common Macrotona Grasshopper Fact File". Wildlife of Sydney. Archived from the original on July 22, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-30.