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.