{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Macrotona australis laying eggs.jpg | image_caption = ''Macrotona australis'', female laying eggs | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Macrotona | authority = Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 | synonyms = }}
'''''Macrotona'''''<ref name="OSF">{{cite web|title=genus ''Macrotona'' Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893|url=http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1108034|work=orthoptera.speciesfile.org|accessdate=2020-05-29}}</ref> is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae and tribe Catantopini. It includes eight described species and around 35 undescribed species.<ref name="Rentz">{{cite book |author=David C. Rentz |year=1996 |title=Grasshopper Country: the Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia |publisher=University of New South Wales Press |isbn=978-0-86840-063-1 |chapter=Key to Australian subfamilies |pages=173–193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0Z2wY2B2ncC&pg=PA190}}</ref> They are often found in association with spinifex.<ref name="Rentz"/>
== Species ==
List of ''Orthoptera Species File'':<ref name="OSF"/>
* ''Macrotona australis'' <small>(Walker, 1870)</small> * ''Macrotona curvicostalis'' <small>(Sjöstedt, 1921)</small> * ''Macrotona genicularis'' <small>(Sjöstedt, 1921)</small> * ''Macrotona lineosa'' <small>(Walker, 1870)</small> * ''Macrotona mjobergi'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1920</small> * ''Macrotona modesta'' <small>(Sjöstedt, 1921)</small> * ''Macrotona picta'' <small>(Sjöstedt, 1920)</small> * ''Macrotona securiformis'' <small>(Sjöstedt, 1921)</small>
== References == {{Commons category|Macrotona}} *{{cite web|url=http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/703463.htm|title=Genus ''Macrotona'' |date=2008-08-14 <!-- 22:41:52 --> |publisher=Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification|accessdate=2009-04-30}}
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Category:Acrididae genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl
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