{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | taxon = Acanthoxia | authority = Bolívar, 1906<ref>Bolívar I (1906) ''Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat.'' 6(7): 392.</ref> | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = * ''Conyacanthella'' {{Au|Giglio-Tos, 1907}} * ''Gonyacantha'' {{Au|Stål, 1873}} * ''Gonyacanthella'' {{Au|Giglio-Tos, 1907}} * ''Metapa'' {{Au|Stål, 1878}} * ''Pretoriana'' {{Au|Uvarov, 1922}} }}
'''''Acanthoxia''''' is a genus of African grasshoppers in the tribe Leptacrini.<ref name="OSF">{{cite web|title=genus ''Acanthoxia'' Bolívar, 1906|url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1113040|work=orthoptera.speciesfile.org|accessdate=2020-03-03}}</ref>
==Nomenclature== ''Pretoriana'' {{Au|Curran, 1938}} may be a junior homonym of a tachinid fly genus; a moth genus invalidly named thus by Traugott-Olsen in 1995 is now considered a junior synonym of ''Perittia''.
==Species== #''Acanthoxia aculeus'' <small>Grunshaw, 1996</small> #''Acanthoxia brevipenne'' <small>Grunshaw, 1996</small> #''Acanthoxia gladiator'' {{Au|(Westwood, 1841)}} - '''type species''' (as ''Opsomala gladiator'' {{Au|Westwood, 1841}}) #''Acanthoxia lanceolata'' {{Au|(Bolívar, 1890)}} #''Acanthoxia natalensis'' {{Au|(Krauss, 1877)}} (synonym ''Ischnacrida pretoriae'' <small>Miller, 1932</small>)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/433064-Acanthoxia/browse_photos Images at iNaturalist] {{Taxonbar|from=Q4672067}}
Category:Acrididae genera Category:Hemiacridinae Category:Orthoptera of Africa Category:Taxa named by Ignacio Bolívar