# Catantops

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{{short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Catantops''
| image = Spur-throated grasshopper (Catantops humeralis).jpg
| image_caption = ''Catantops humeralis''<br>[Kwa-Zulu Natal](/source/Kwa-Zulu_Natal), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
| taxon = Catantops
| authority = [Schaum](/source/Hermann_Rudolph_Schaum), 1853<ref>Schaum. 1853. In Peters. Übersicht der von ihm in Mossambique beobachteten Orthopteren nebst Beschreibung der neu entdeckten Gattungen und Arten durch Hrn. Dr. Hermann Schaum. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 779</ref>
| type_species = ''[Catantops melanostictus](/source/Catantops_melanostictus)''
| type_species_authority = Schaum
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms = ''Cantantops'' Walker, 1870
}}

'''''Catantops''''' is a genus of [grasshoppers](/source/grasshoppers) in the tribe [Catantopini](/source/Catantopini) and is typical of the subfamily [Catantopinae](/source/Catantopinae).  Species can be found in Africa, including Madagascar and subcontinental India.<ref name = OSF>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1107686 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 7 August 2021)]</ref>

== Species == 
thumb|''Catantops sylvestris'' male
The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name = OSF/> lists:
* ''[Catantops annexus](/source/Catantops_annexus)'' Bolívar, 1917
* ''[Catantops australis](/source/Catantops_australis)'' Jago, 1984
* ''[Catantops brevipennis](/source/Catantops_brevipennis)'' Wintrebert, 1972
* ''[Catantops erubescens](/source/Catantops_erubescens)'' (Walker, 1870)
* ''[Catantops humeralis](/source/Catantops_humeralis)'' (Thunberg, 1815)
* ''[Catantops ituriensis](/source/Catantops_ituriensis)'' Rehn, 1914
* ''[Catantops janus](/source/Catantops_janus)'' Rehn, 1914
* ''[Catantops kasengo](/source/Catantops_kasengo)'' Jago, 1994
* ''[Catantops magnicercus](/source/Catantops_magnicercus)'' Uvarov, 1953
* ''[Catantops melanostictus](/source/Catantops_melanostictus)'' Schaum, 1853 - '''type species'''
* ''[Catantops minor](/source/Catantops_minor)'' Dirsh, 1956
* ''[Catantops modestus](/source/Catantops_modestus)'' Karny, 1917
* ''[Catantops momboensis](/source/Catantops_momboensis)'' Sjöstedt, 1931
* ''[Catantops nephiostictus](/source/Catantops_nephiostictus)'' Jago, 1984
* ''[Catantops ochthephilus](/source/Catantops_ochthephilus)'' Jago, 1984
* ''[Catantops parasylvestris](/source/Catantops_parasylvestris)'' Jago, 1984
* ''[Catantops stenocrobyloides](/source/Catantops_stenocrobyloides)'' Karny, 1907
* ''[Catantops stramineus](/source/Catantops_stramineus)'' (Walker, 1870)
* ''[Catantops sylvestris](/source/Catantops_sylvestris)'' Jago, 1984
* ''[Catantops tanganus](/source/Catantops_tanganus)'' Dirsh, 1956
* ''[Catantops terminalis](/source/Catantops_terminalis)'' Ramme, 1929
* ''[Catantops trimaculatus](/source/Catantops_trimaculatus)'' Uvarov, 1953
* ''[Catantops unimaculata](/source/Catantops_unimaculata)'' Mahmood, Yousuf & Khaliq, 2002

== Synonyms ==
The names ''Catantops debilis'' Krauss 1901 and ''Catantops elegans'' Karny, 1907 are synonyms for ''[Cryptocatantops debilis](/source/Cryptocatantops_debilis)'' (Krauss, 1901).

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Commons category-inline}}
* {{Wikispecies-inline}}
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Category:Acrididae genera
Category:Taxa named by Hermann Rudolph Schaum
Category:Catantopinae 
Category:Orthoptera of Asia
Category:Orthoptera of Africa

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