''Xenocatantops'' is a genus of grasshoppers (

Caelifera The Caelifera are a suborder of orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). ...

Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...

) in the subfamily

Catantopinae The subfamily Catantopinae is a group of insects classified under family Acrididae. Genera such as '' Macrotona'' may sometimes called "spur-throated grasshoppers", but that name is also used for grasshoppers from other subfamilies, including the ...

and tribe

Catantopini Catantopini is a tribe in the subfamily Catantopinae, a group of grasshoppers found in Africa, Asia and Australia. Subtribes & Genera The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists the following (genera incomplete): * subtribe Apotropina Key, 1993 - ...

. Species can be found in Africa, India, China,

Indo-China Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

and

Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The ...

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Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' and

Catalogue of Life The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Info ...

list the following: *'' Xenocatantops acanthraus'' Zheng, Li & Wang, 2004 *'' Xenocatantops areolatus'' Bolívar, 1908 *'' Xenocatantops brachycerus'' Willemse, 1932 *'' Xenocatantops dirshi'' Willemse, 1968 *'' Xenocatantops henryi'' Bolívar, 1917 *'' Xenocatantops humilis'' Serville, 1838 - type species (as ''Acridium humile'' Serville) *'' Xenocatantops jagabandhui'' Bhowmik, 1986 *'' Xenocatantops karnyi'' Kirby, 1910 *'' Xenocatantops liaoningensis'' Wang, 2007 *'' Xenocatantops longpennis'' Cao & Yin, 2007 *'' Xenocatantops luteitibia'' Zheng & Jiang, 2002 *'' Xenocatantops parazernyi'' Jago, 1982 *'' Xenocatantops sauteri'' Ramme, 1941 *'' Xenocatantops taiwanensis'' Cao & Yin, 2007 *'' Xenocatantops zernyi'' Ramme, 1929

References

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10721921 Acrididae genera Catantopinae