''Dociostaurus'' is a genus of grasshoppers in the family

Acrididae The AcrididaeMacLeay WS (1821) ''Horae Entomologicae or Essays on the Annulose Animals'' 2 are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera. The Acrididae are best known bec ...

, subfamily

Gomphocerinae Gomphocerinae, sometimes called "slant-faced grasshoppers", are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia. Tribes and genera Tribes and genera include: Arcypterini Auth.: Bolívar, 1914 - Africa, Palearc ...

and typical of the tribe

Dociostaurini Gomphocerinae, sometimes called "slant-faced grasshoppers", are a subfamily of grasshoppers found on every continent but Antarctica and Australia. Tribes and genera Tribes and genera include: Arcypterini Auth.: Bolívar, 1914 - Africa, Palearc ...

.Orthoptera Species File: genus ''Dociostaurus'' Fieber, 1853 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 18 November 2021)
/ref> Species are found in Africa, southern Europe and Asia, and includes the economically important Moroccan locust.

Subgenera and Species

The ''Orthoptera Species File'' lists: * unplaced: '' Dociostaurus biskrensis'' Moussi & Petit, 2014 ;subgenus ''Dociostaurus'' Fieber, 1853 # '' Dociostaurus ciostaurus'' Fieber, 1853 # '' Dociostaurus apicalis'' (Walker, 1871) # '' Dociostaurus australis'' (Bolívar, 1889) # '' Dociostaurus brachypterus'' Demirsoy, 1979 # '' Dociostaurus cephalotes'' Uvarov, 1923 # '' Dociostaurus curvicercus'' Uvarov, 1942 # '' Dociostaurus diamesus'' Bey-Bienko, 1948 # '' Dociostaurus hammadae'' Ingrisch, 1983 # '' Dociostaurus hispanicus'' Bolívar, 1898 # '' Dociostaurus histrio'' (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846) # '' Dociostaurus kervillei'' Bolívar, 1911 # ''

Dociostaurus maroccanus ''Dociostaurus maroccanus'', commonly known as the Moroccan locust, is a grasshopper in the insect family Acrididae. It is found in northern Africa, southern and eastern Europe and western Asia. It lives a solitary existence but in some years its ...

'' (Thunberg, 1815)
type species (as ''Gryllus maroccanus'' ThunbergKirby WF (1910) ''A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae)'' 3(2):674 pp.) # '' Dociostaurus minutus'' La Greca, 1962 # '' Dociostaurus pecularis'' Moeed, 1971 # '' Dociostaurus plotnikovi'' Uvarov, 1921 # '' Dociostaurus salmani'' Demirsoy, 1979 # '' Dociostaurus turbatus'' (Walker, 1871) ;subgenus ''Kazakia'' Bey-Bienko, 1933 # '' Dociostaurus brevicollis'' (Eversmann, 1848) # '' Dociostaurus genei'' (Ocskay, 1832) # '' Dociostaurus icconium'' Sirin & Mol, 2013 # '' Dociostaurus jagoi'' Soltani, 1978 # '' Dociostaurus tarbinskyi'' (Bey-Bienko, 1933) # '' Dociostaurus tartarus'' Stshelkanovtzev, 1921 ;subgenus ''Stauronotulus'' Tarbinsky, 1940 # '' Dociostaurus brachypterus'' Liu, 1981 emporary name/small> # '' Dociostaurus cappadocicus'' (Azam, 1913) # '' Dociostaurus crassiusculus'' (Pantel, 1886) # '' Dociostaurus dantini'' Bolívar, 1914 # '' Dociostaurus hauensteini'' (Bolívar, 1893) # '' Dociostaurus kraussi'' (Ingenitskii, 1897) # '' Dociostaurus kurdus'' Uvarov, 1921

Gallery

File:Dociostaurus jagoi (9566291092).jpg, ''D. cf. jagoi'' female File:Dociostaurus jagoi (9566286938).jpg, ''D. cf. jagoi'' male File:Dociostaurus maroccanus qtl1.jpg, ''D. maroccanus''

References

External links

* * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q10475267 Acrididae genera Gomphocerinae Orthoptera of Africa Orthoptera of Asia Orthoptera of Europe