NOMINA CIRCUMSCRIBENTIA INSECTORUM

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Typified names:

Dolichocera Bey-Bienko 1964

NOMEN: Dolichocera Bey-Bienko 1964: 208 [Г.Я. Бей-Биенко. Определитель насекомых европейской части СССР. I. Низшие, древнекрылые, с неполным превращением. // Москва, "Наука" 1964: 1–936]

ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Bey-Bienko 1964): Tettigonioidea (Rhaphidophoridae + Bradyporidae + Tettigoniidae et al.) + Grylloidea (Oecanthidae + Gryllidae + Mogoplistidae + Grylotalpidae et al.)

TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Gryllus/fg (sine Acrida; incl. Gryllacris, Tettigonia)

TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Gryllina

MODERN STATUS:  the valid, the oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon

COMMENT. This taxon is often called «Ensifera». Actually, the name Ensifera is a junior synonym of Digastria. The taxon Digastria Graber 1875 {syn.obj.: Diplogastera Graber 1875; syn.circ: Ensifera Chopard 1920} besides the insects recently placed in Dolichocera, originally included Tridactylus/fg1 – the taxon recently placed in Caelifera.