Patanga (grasshopper)
# Patanga (grasshopper)

Patanga is a genus of grasshoppers in the subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. Species are distributed throughout Asia: from India, China, Japan, Indochina and western Malesia. The genus was named by Boris Uvarov in 1923, with the type species the economically significant Bombay locust: which has also been placed in genus Nomadacris.

## Species

As of 2022, the Orthoptera Species File lists:

* Patanga apicerca Huang, 1982 - China
* Patanga avis Rehn & Rehn, 1941 - Philippines
* Patanga humilis Bi, 1986 - Tibet
* Patanga japonica (Bolívar, 1898) - India, Vietnam, Korea, Japan (poss. incomplete)
* Patanga luteicornis (Serville, 1838) - Java
* Patanga succincta (Johannson, 1763) - India, SE Asia, Japan
