Acanthoplus

{{Short description|Genus of cricket-like animals}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| name = Corn crickets

| image = Koringkriek (Acanthoplus discoidalis) (6029726988).jpg

| image_caption = A. discoidalis in the Kruger
Park, South Africa

| taxon = Acanthoplus

| authority = Stål, 1873

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See article

}}

Acanthoplus is a genus of African bush crickets in the subfamily Hetrodinae and tribe Acanthoplini[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1134442 Orthoptera Species File] (Version 5.0/5.0): genus Acanthoplus Stål, 1873 (but placed previously in the Bradyporinae{{cite journal |last1=Bateman |first1=Philip |last2=Fleming |first2=P. A. |date=28 April 2009 |title=There will be blood: autohaemorrhage behaviour as part of the defence repertoire of an insect |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=278 |issue=4 |pages=342–348 |issn=1469-7998 |url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122368498/abstract |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121016184627/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122368498/abstract |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2012 |accessdate=8 July 2009 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00582.x }}).

==Species==

• A. armativentris — corn cricket
• A. bechuanus
• A. cervinus — corn cricket
• A. desertorum
• A. discoidalis — armoured katydid, corn cricket
• A. germanus
• A. innotatus
• A. jallae
• A. loandae
• A. longipes — long-legged armoured katydid
• A. pallidus
• A. serratus
• A. spiseri
• A. stratiotes
• A. varicornis
• A. weidneri{{cite web |title=Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names |url=http://nomen.at/Acanthoplus |website=Nomen.at |accessdate=18 June 2014}}