Tanita

Genus of grasshoppers

This article is about a genus of grasshoppers. For the British folk singer-songwriter, see Tanita Tikaram.

Tanita

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Orthoptera
Suborder:  | Caelifera
Family:  | Pyrgomorphidae
Subfamily:  | Pyrgomorphinae
Tribe:  | Pyrgomorphini
Genus:  | Tanita
Bolívar, 1904[1]
Synonyms

Protagasta Bolívar, 1908

External image

Image at iNaturalist

Tanita is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Pyrgomorphidae, which lives in Africa.[2]

## Species

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The Orthoptera Species File[2] lists the following:

1. Tanita brachyptera Bolívar, 1912
2. Tanita breviceps (Bolívar, 1882) \- type species (as Pyrgomorpha breviceps Bolívar, I., by subsequent designation[3])
3. Tanita lineaalba (Bolívar, 1889)
4. Tanita loosi Bolívar, 1904
5. Tanita parva Kevan, 1962
6. Tanita purpurea Bolívar, 1904
7. Tanita rosea (Bolívar, 1908)
8. Tanita stulta Bolívar, 1912
9. Tanita subcylindrica (Bolívar, 1882)

## References

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1. ^ Bolívar I (1904) Bol. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4: 446.
2. ^ a b [orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1110767 Orthoptera Species File] (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 3 January 2023)
3. ^ Kirby WF (1910 A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 3(2): 674 pp.

## External links

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* Data related to Tanita at Wikispecies

Taxon identifiers

Tanita|

* Wikidata: Q10690621
* CoL: 8NZTP
* EoL: 35963
* GBIF: 1728227
* iNaturalist: 646051
* IRMNG: 1352260
* NCBI: 2501254
* Orthoptera Species File (old): 1121138

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