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Orthoptera Species File
Species

Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) minutus La Greca, 1962

Nomenclature (6)

  • Dociostaurus minutus La Greca, 1962: 116.

    Holotype; male; a09b1b89-d9df-453b-b88f-cf173505e681; deposited at: Museo del Dipartimento di Biologia Animale dell'Universita (MBAC); SE Sicily, Manfria

  • Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) minutus La Greca, 1962 in Harz, 1975: 665.
  • Dociostaurus minutus La Greca, 1962 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 470.
  • Dociostaurus minutus La Greca, 1962 in Massa & Puma, 2026

References (6)

  • Castellani, A. (2004) A catalogue of the types in La Greca's collection of orthopteroid insects, with several lectotype designations (Mantodea, Orthoptera). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 82(2), 317–348.
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • La Greca, M. (1962) Atti della Accademia Gioenia di Scienze naturali in Catania, 4(7).
  • Massa, B. & Puma, T. (2026) Elevated extinction risk of the Sicilian endemic Dociostaurus minutus (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Dociostaurini), with conservation and taxonomic considerations. Conservation, 6(4, 119), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.3390/conservation6040119
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Soltani, A.A. (1978) Preliminary synonymy and description of new species in the genus Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera: Acridoidea: Acrididae, Gomphocerinae) with a key to the species in the genus. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, Suppl. 2, 1–93.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Allusion to small body size.

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