Dociostaurus

Dociostaurus is a genus of grasshoppers in the family Acrididae, subfamily Gomphocerinae and typical of the tribe Dociostaurini. 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 (Thunberg, 1815)type species (as Gryllus maroccanus Thunberg) 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 [temporary name] Dociostaurus cappadocicus (Azam, 1913) Dociostaurus crassiusculus (Pantel, 1886) Dociostaurus dantini Bolívar, 1914 Dociostaurus hauensteini (Bolívar, 1893) Dociostaurus kraussi (Ingenitskii, 1897) Dociostaurus kurdus Uvarov, 1921