Lanistoides Sjöstedt, 1913

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Hemp, Claudia, Liu, Chunxiang & Volleth, Marianne, 2014, Taxonomic, bioacoustic and faunistic data on a collection of Tettigonioidea from Eastern Congo (Insecta: Orthoptera), Zootaxa 3785 (3), pp. 343-376 : 370

Lanistoides Sjöstedt, 1913 stat. rev.

The tribe Copiphorini contains six genera in Africa (excluding the genera endemic to Madagascar and St. Helena and the doubtful species Copiphora subulata (Stoll, 1813)) : the closely related genera Euconocephalus and Ruspolia and the equally widespread Pseudorhynchus and the endemic Clasma , Lanista and Plastocorypha .

Another endemic genus, Lanistoides Sjöstedt, 1913 , was placed in synonymy of Plastocorypha by Chopard (1955: 88), who obviously did not notice that both genera have different type species with same specific name (overlooked also by Otte 1997): Plastocorypha is based on Pseudorhynchus nigrifrons Redtenbacher 1891 , Lanistoides on Lanistoides nigrifrons Sjöstedt, 1913 . Combining both genera would produce a secondary homonym and require a new name for Lanistoides nigrifrons Sjöstedt, 1913 . Since the tip of the fastigium verticis seems to be distinctly longer in Lanistoides nigrifrons than in Lanista and Plastocorypha (at least in the species figured in OSF), a character mentioned as typical for the genus by Sjöstedt (1913), and the shape of the head is different, we propose to re-establish Lanistoides as a valid genus.