Catantops

{{short description|Genus of grasshoppers}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Catantops

| image = Spur-throated grasshopper (Catantops humeralis).jpg

| image_caption = Catantops humeralis
Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

| taxon = Catantops

| authority = Schaum, 1853Schaum. 1853. In Peters. Übersicht der von ihm in Mossambique beobachteten Orthopteren nebst Beschreibung der neu entdeckten Gattungen und Arten durch Hrn. Dr. Hermann Schaum. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 779

| type_species = Catantops melanostictus

| type_species_authority = Schaum

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

| synonyms = Cantantops Walker, 1870

}}

Catantops is a genus of grasshoppers in the tribe Catantopini and is typical of the subfamily Catantopinae. Species can be found in Africa, including Madagascar and subcontinental India.[http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1107686 Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 7 August 2021)]

== Species ==

File:Catantops sylvestris male.jpg

The Orthoptera Species File lists:

• Catantops annexus Bolívar, 1917
• Catantops australis Jago, 1984
• Catantops brevipennis Wintrebert, 1972
• Catantops erubescens (Walker, 1870)
• Catantops humeralis (Thunberg, 1815)
• Catantops ituriensis Rehn, 1914
• Catantops janus Rehn, 1914
• Catantops kasengo Jago, 1994
• Catantops magnicercus Uvarov, 1953
• Catantops melanostictus Schaum, 1853 - type species
• Catantops minor Dirsh, 1956
• Catantops modestus Karny, 1917
• Catantops momboensis Sjöstedt, 1931
• Catantops nephiostictus Jago, 1984
• Catantops ochthephilus Jago, 1984
• Catantops parasylvestris Jago, 1984
• Catantops stenocrobyloides Karny, 1907
• Catantops stramineus (Walker, 1870)
• Catantops sylvestris Jago, 1984
• Catantops tanganus Dirsh, 1956
• Catantops terminalis Ramme, 1929
• Catantops trimaculatus Uvarov, 1953
• Catantops unimaculata Mahmood, Yousuf & Khaliq, 2002