Notostaurus Explained

Notostaurus is a genus of Palaearctic grasshoppers in the tribe Dociostaurini, erected by Grigory Bey-Bienko in 1933.^[1] Species are recorded from: northern Africa, the middle East, eastern Europe through to temperate central Asia (probably incomplete distribution).

Species

The Orthoptera Species File^[2] lists:

1. Notostaurus albicornis (Eversmann, 1848)
2. Notostaurus anatolicus (Krauss, 1896) - type species (as Dociostaurus anatolicus Krauss)
3. Notostaurus avicennai (Soltani, 1978)
4. Notostaurus larensis (Soltani, 1978)
5. Notostaurus popovi Miram, 1935

Notes and References

1. Bey-Bienko G (1933) Orthoptera collected by Prof. V. Baranov in North Western Mongolia. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 33: 337, 338.
2. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1105668 Orthoptera Species File: genus Notostaurus Bey-Bienko, 1933 (Version 5.0/5.0: retrieved 28 May 2023)