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Dactylotum bicolor Charpentier, 1845

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Dactylotum bicolor Charpentier, 1845
Name authority
Charpentier, 1845
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Acrididae
Genus
Dactylotum
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: yes. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumArthropoda
  4. subphylumHexapoda
  5. classInsecta
  6. orderOrthoptera Olivier, 1789
  7. suborderCaelifera Ander, 1936
  8. infraorderAcrididea Targioni-Tozzetti, 1882
  9. superfamilyAcridoidea MacLeay, 1821
  10. familyAcrididae MacLeay, 1821
  11. subfamilyMelanoplinae Scudder, 1897
  12. tribeDactylotini Scudder, 1897
  13. genusDactylotum Charpentier, 1845
  14. speciesDactylotum bicolor Charpentier, 1845

Close classified relatives

No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.

Browse 227 records assigned to Acrididae.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. von Charpentier, T. (1845) Orthoptera descripta et depicta [1841-1845]. L. Woss, Lipsiae [Leipzig], 120 pp. (non numerate). Available at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuc.2859184 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:33X2N. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.