Neoconocephalus macroxiphus (Redtenbacher, 1891), 2024

Braun, Holger, 2024, Nomenclatural notes on a variety of Orthoptera, Zootaxa 5453 (1), pp. 121-126 : 122

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11246120
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/297EAC16-2D29-D776-9692-377AFEA4FAF7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neoconocephalus macroxiphus (Redtenbacher, 1891)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Neoconocephalus macroxiphus (Redtenbacher, 1891) View in CoL comb. nov.

Conocephalus macroxiphus Redtenbacher, 1891

This species from French Guiana was described in the genus Conocephalus and subsequently transferred to Homorocoryphus , originally a subgenus of Conocephalus . Practically all species from the Western Hemisphere once assigned to Homorocoryphus are now in Neoconocephalus , except for two that belong to Bucrates . So including this species in the Old World genus Ruspolia ( Otte 1997b) was a mistake. According to photos of the female holotype ( Cigliano et al. 2024) and an observation of a male from French Guiana on iNaturalist (5 January 2022, currently identified as Ruspolia macroxipha ), this species clearly belongs to Neoconocephalus .

Note: “ Ruspolia pulchella (Karny, 1997) ” from Peru in the old OSF is a duplicate of Neoconocephalus pulcher (Karny, 1907) .