{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Paracaloptenus | authority = Bolívar, 1878 | display_parents = 2 | synonyms = }} {{external media|width=225px|float=right |image1 = [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/531761-Paracaloptenus/browse_photos Images at iNaturalist] }}

'''''Paracaloptenus''''' is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the subfamily Calliptaminae, erected by Ignacio Bolívar in 1878.<ref>Bolívar I (1878) ''An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat.'' 7: 92 [296].</ref> Records of occurrence are from Spain and France, with a discontinuous (probably incomplete) distribution through to Ukraine and Turkey.<ref name = OSF/>

== Species == The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name = OSF>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112868 Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Paracaloptenus'' Bolívar, 1878 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)]</ref> lists: # ''Paracaloptenus bolivari'' <small>Uvarov, 1942</small> # ''Paracaloptenus caloptenoides'' <small>(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)</small>, subspecies: ##''P. caloptenoides brunneri'' <small>(Stål, 1876)</small> ##''P. caloptenoides caloptenoides'' <small>(Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1861)</small> - '''type species''' (as ''Platyphyma caloptenoides'' <small>Brunner von Wattenwyl</small>) ##''P. caloptenoides moreanus'' <small>Willemse, 1973</small> # ''Paracaloptenus cristatus'' <small>Willemse, 1973</small>

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== External links== *{{wikispecies inline|Calliptaminae}} {{taxonbar|from= Q10616875}}

Category:Caelifera genera Category:Acrididae Category:Orthoptera of Europe