{{Short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{about|a genus of grasshoppers|the British folk singer-songwriter|Tanita Tikaram}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Tanita |authority = Bolívar, 1904<ref>Bolívar I (1904) ''Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat.'' 4: 446.</ref> |synonyms = ''Protagasta'' Bolívar, 1908 }} {{external media |float = right |image1 = [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/646051-Tanita Image at iNaturalist] }}
'''''Tanita''''' is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae, which lives in Africa.<ref name = OSF/>
==Species== The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name = OSF>[orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1110767 Orthoptera Species File] (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 3 January 2023)</ref> lists the following: # ''Tanita brachyptera'' <small>Bolívar, 1912</small> # ''Tanita breviceps'' <small>(Bolívar, 1882)</small> - '''type species''' (as ''Pyrgomorpha breviceps'' Bolívar, I., by subsequent designation<ref>Kirby WF (1910 ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2): 674 pp.</ref>) # ''Tanita lineaalba'' <small>(Bolívar, 1889)</small> # ''Tanita loosi'' <small>Bolívar, 1904</small> # ''Tanita parva'' <small>Kevan, 1962</small> # ''Tanita purpurea'' <small>Bolívar, 1904</small> # ''Tanita rosea'' <small>(Bolívar, 1908)</small> # ''Tanita stulta'' <small>Bolívar, 1912</small> # ''Tanita subcylindrica'' <small>(Bolívar, 1882)</small>
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Category:Pyrgomorphidae Category:Caelifera genera Category:Orthoptera of Africa
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