{{short description|Genus of grasshoppers}} {{Automatic taxobox |image=Giant Grasshopper.JPG |image_caption=''Valanga irregularis'' |taxon = Valanga |authority = Uvarov, 1932 |synonyms = ''Yalanga'' Sjöstedt, 1932 }}
'''''Valanga'''''<ref>Uvarov BP (1923) ''Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.'' 9 11: 143.</ref> is a genus of "bird grasshoppers" in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae.<ref name="COL"/> Species are found from the Indian subcontinent through southeast Asia and the Korean peninsula to Australia and the Pacific islands.<ref name = OSF>[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1112512 Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Valanga'' Uvarov, 1923 (retrieved 11 March 2020)]</ref>
==Species== The ''Orthoptera Species File''<ref name = OSF/> lists the following ''Valanga'' species: *''Valanga cheesmanae'' <small>Uvarov, 1932</small> *''Valanga chloropus'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1932</small> *''Valanga coerulescens'' <small>Willemse, 1953</small> *''Valanga conspersa'' <small>Uvarov, 1923</small> *''Valanga excavata'' <small>Stål, 1861</small> *''Valanga fakfakensis'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1932</small> *''Valanga geniculata'' <small>Stål, 1877</small> *''Valanga gilbertensis'' <small>Willemse, 1970</small> *''Valanga gohieri'' <small>Le Guillou, 1841</small> *''Valanga ilocano'' <small>Rehn & Rehn, 1941</small> *''Valanga irregularis'' <small>Walker, 1870</small> *''Valanga isolata'' <small>Willemse, 1955</small> *''Valanga marquesana'' <small>Uvarov, 1927</small> *''Valanga meleager'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1921</small> *''Valanga modesta'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1921</small> *''Valanga nigricornis'' <small>(Burmeister, 1838)</small> - '''type species''' (as ''Acridium nigricorne'' = ''V. nigricornis nigricornis'') *''Valanga nobilis'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1930</small> *''Valanga papuasica'' <small>Finot, 1907</small> *''Valanga pulchripes'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1921</small> *''Valanga rapana'' <small>Uvarov, 1927</small> *''Valanga renschi'' <small>Ramme, 1941</small> *''Valanga rouxi'' <small>Willemse, 1923</small> *''Valanga rubrispinarum'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1936</small> *''Valanga salomonica'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1932</small> *''Valanga sjostedti'' <small>Uvarov, 1923</small> *''Valanga soror'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1936</small> *''Valanga stercoraria'' <small>Holdhaus, 1909</small> *''Valanga tenimberensis'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1930</small> *''Valanga transiens'' <small>Walker, 1870</small> *''Valanga uvarovia'' <small>Willemse, 1955</small> *''Valanga willemsei'' <small>Sjöstedt, 1932</small>
==References== <references> <ref name="COL">{{cite web |url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/valanga/match/1|title=Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist.|accessdate=24 September 2012|author=Roskov Y.|author2=Kunze T.|author3=Orrell T.|author4=Abucay L.|author5=Paglinawan L.|author6=Culham A.|author7=Bailly N.|author8=Kirk P.|author9=Bourgoin T.|author10=Baillargeon G.|author11=Decock W.|author12=De Wever A.|editor=Didžiulis V.|year=2011|publisher=Species 2000: Reading, UK.}}</ref> </references>
==External links== * {{commonscat inline|Valanga}} * {{Wikispecies inline|Valanga}}
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Category:Acrididae genera Category:Taxa named by Boris Uvarov Category:Cyrtacanthacridinae