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Orthoptera Species File
Subgenus

Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) Fieber, 1853

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Dociostaurus (Dociostaurus) Fieber, 1853

Nomenclature (29)

  • Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853: 118.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus maroccanus Thunberg, 1815 in Kirby, 1910

  • Dociostaurus (Stauronotus) Fischer, 1853: 297, 351.

    type species by subsequent designation Gryllus maroccanus Thunberg, 1815 in Kirby, 1910

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  • Dociostaurus (Stauronotulus) Tarbinsky, 1940 in Hodjat, 2016: 257, 259, 260, 263.
  • Dociostaurus (Stauronotulus) Tarbinsky, 1940 (subjective synonym of Dociostaurus Fieber, 1853) in Massa & Puma, 2026: 22.

References (23)

  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. & Mistshenko, L. (1951) Keys to the Fauna of the U.S.S.R. [1964 English translation no. 40]. In Locusts and Grasshoppers of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries. Zoological Inst. of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow/Leningrad. Vol. 2, 385–667 [1–291]. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/224097#page/7/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1876) Sinopsis de los Ortópteros de España y Portugal. Segunda parte. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 5, 259–372. Available at http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=1128
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  • Bolívar, I. (1898) Catálogo sinóptico de los Ortópteros de la Fauna Ibérica. Annaes de Sciencias Naturaes, 5, 1–48, 121–152. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31167#page/13/mode/1up
  • Bolívar, I. (1909) Observaciones sobre los Truxalinos. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 9, 285–296. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17844#page/295/mode/1up
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1882) Prodromus der europäischen Orthopteren. Engelmann, Leipzig, XXXII + 466 pp., XI tab. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=35024
  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (2012) Implications taxonomiques et nomenclaturales de publications récentes en phylogénie moléculaire: 1. Les Gomphocerinae de France (Orthoptera, Acrididae). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 17, 15–20.
  • Fieber, F.X. (1853) Synopsis der europäischen Orthoptera mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die in Böhmen vorkommenden Arten. Lotos, Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften. Herausgegeben vom naturhistorischen Vereine Lotos in Prag, 3, 90–104, 115–129, 138–154, 168–176, 184–188, 201–207, 232–238, 252–261. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42805#page/108/mode/1up
  • Fischer, L.H. (1853) Orthoptera Europaea. sumtibus G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 454 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=fV3nAAAAMAAJ
  • Harz, K. (1975) Die Orthopteren Europas II. Series Entomologica, 11, 1–939.
  • Hodjat, S.H. (2016) A review of Iranian Dociostaurini (Orthoptera: Gomphocerinae) with keys to their species. Entomologia Generalis, 35(4), 253–268.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • 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
  • Mistshenko, L. (1974) Grasshoppers of the genus Dociostaurus Fieb. (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Communication 2. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 53(3), 589–601.
  • Obenberger, J. (1926) Orthoptères et Dermaptères de la République Tchécoslovaque. 1–126.
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1900) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren (Ohrwürmer und Geradflügler) von Österreich-Ungarn und Deutschland. Wien, 148 pp. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0004_0001-0148.pdf
  • Rehn, J.A.G. (1902) Notes on some generic names employed by Serville, in the Revue Methodique, and Fieber, in the Synopsis du Europaischen Orthopteran. The Canadian Entomologist, 34(12), 316–317. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18808#page/332/mode/1up
  • 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.
  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1940) The Saltatorian Orthopterous Insects of the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R. Acad. Sci. Azyerbaidjankoi S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad, 245 pp. [in Russian]
  • Tarbinsky, S.P. (1948) Order Orthoptera (Saltatoria). In Keys to insects of European part of USSR [Opredelitel' nasekomykh Evropeiskoi chasti SSSR]. 104–127 pp.
  • Targioni-Tozzetti, A. (1882) Ortotteri agrari cioè dei diversi insetti dell'ordine degli ortotteri nocivi o vantaggiosi all'agricoltura o all'economia domestica e principalmente delle cavallette. Annali di Agricoltura, Firenze, Bencini, 238 pp., 68 figs.
  • Thomas, C. (1872) Notes on the saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain regions. In Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress. Vol. 5, pp. 423–466, 2 pls. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=NgdSAAAAcAAJ
  • Türk, R. (1860) Mehrere für Niederösterreichs Fauna neue Orthopteren. Wiener Entomologische Monatsschrift, 4, 84–88. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/WEMS_4_0084-0088.pdf

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

From Greek δοκίον = small beam or rod, and σταυρός = cross, relating to the shape of the lateral edges of the pronotum.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subgenus1078
Species2005272
Subspecies602632