Subgenus

Omocestus (Tarbinskius) Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023

Type

type species by original designation of Omocestus (Tarbinskius) Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023

Omocestus (Dreuxius) Defaut, 1988: 11. (nomen nudum: no type fixation after 1930 in Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 25)
Omocestus (Dreuxius) Defaut, 1988 in Defaut, 2001: 59.

Omocestus (Tarbinskius) Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 25.
type species by original designation Omocestus bolivari Chopard, 1939
Omocestus (Dreuxius) Defaut, 1988 (synonym of Omocestus (Tarbinskius) Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023) in Storozhenko & Lapteva, 2023: 25.

Defaut, B. (1988) La détermination des orthopteroides ouest-paléarctiques 6. Caelifera: Acrididae (suite). 7. Ensifera. 8. Mantodea. Travaux du Laboratoire d'Ecobiologie des arthropodes édaphiques, 6(1), 1–93.
Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.

Tonzo, V., Papadopoulou, A. & Ortego, J. (2019) Genomic data reveal deep genetic structure but no support for current taxonomic designation in a grasshopper species complex. Molecular Ecology, 28(17), 3869–3886.
Storozhenko, S.Y. & Lapteva, S.V. (2023) To the knowledge of the genus Omocestus I. Bolivar, 1878 (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 94, 23–26. [in Russian]

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Named in memory of the Soviet orthopterologist Sergei Petrovich Tarbinsky (1902–1942) who first proposed dividing the genus Omocestus into subgenera.