Type specimen

Holotype; male; MNHN-EO-CAELIF995; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Algeria: Biskra: Bir Naam, Biskra Wilaya

Nomenclature (3)

  • Dociostaurus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014 in Moussi, Abba, Harrat & Petit, 2014: 381.

    Holotype; male; MNHN-EO-CAELIF995; deposited at: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN); Algeria: Biskra: Bir Naam, Biskra Wilaya

  • Dociostaurus biskrensis Moussi & Petit, 2014 in Tlili, Abdellaoui, Chintauan-Marquier, Ben Chouikha, Moussi, Ammar & Desutter-Grandcolas, 2020: 620.
  • Stenohippus biskrensis (Moussi & Petit, 2014) in Hafayed, Moussi, Chang & Huang, 2023

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Hafayed, R., Moussi, A., Chang, H. & Huang, Y. (2023) Species delimitation and molecular phylogeny of the grasshopper subfamily Gomphocerinae (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from Algeria based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. African Zoology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2023.2263498
  • Moussi, A., Abba, A., Harrat, A. & Petit, D. (2014) Description of Dociostaurus biskrensis sp. nov. and male allotypes of four species: Pamphagulus bodenheimeri dumonti, P. uvarovi, Sphingonotus ebneri and Notopleura pygmaea (Orthoptera: Acridoidea) in the region of Biskra, Algeria. Zootaxa, 3755(4), 379–390.
  • Tlili, H., Abdellaoui, K., Chintauan-Marquier, I.C., Ben Chouikha, M., Moussi, A., Ammar, M. & Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2020) Checklist and taxonomic updates in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) of central and southwestern Tunisia with new records and a key for species identification. Zoosystema, 42(31), 607–738. Available at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/42/31
Asserted distribution
Collection object
Type material

Descendants and synonyms

No records found.
Scrutiny
  • Not placed in any subgenus. Compared to D. jagoi and D. genei which are in subgenus Dociostaurus (Kazakia).
Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Grassland.

External links to websites
Gender, form, and etymology
Adjectivebiskrensis, biskrensis, biskrense
Etymology:

Named after type locality Biskra Wilaya.

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