Nomenclatural notes on a variety of Orthoptera Author Braun, Holger text Zootaxa 2024 2024-05-17 5453 1 121 126 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.7 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.7 1175-5326 11233653 459ECAEE-4FE8-42EE-A7F7-A154C4D21D30 Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815 This cosmopolitan genus comprising more than 160 species is currently divided in ten subgenera, with most of the species belonging to the also cosmopolitan subgenus C . ( Anisoptera ) Latreille, 1829. For a long time also X iphidion Serville, 1831 was recognized as subgenus by many authors, and by a few authors still is, but its diagnosis is contradictory and in an important revision of the genus it is treated as a synonym of C . ( Anisoptera ) ( Pitkin 1980 ). This has been adopted by OSF ( Cigliano et al. 2024 and already in the old OSF). Due to this unclear taxonomic situation, part 7 of the catalog series OSF is originally based on, lists several generic synonyms under a wrong subgenus ( Otte 1997b , some corresponding citations needed to be removed in the new OSF to restore the probably correct synonymies). The following four names are here confirmed as synonyms of C . ( Anisoptera ): Xiphidion Serville, 1831 , C. ( Neoxiphidion ) Karny,1912, C .( Thecoxiphidion ) Karny,1912, all three synonymized by Pitkin 1980 with Anisoptera . Palotta Walker, 1869 and the only species P. inornata Walker, 1869 , whose holotype is a nymph, were treated as nomina dubia, although presumably belonging to genus Thyridorhoptrum Rehn & Hebard ( Pitkin 1977 ). Other authors, most recently Otte 1997b , treat the species as synonym of Conocephalus iris (Serville, 1938) , which belongs to subgenus C . ( Anisoptera ) ( Cigliano et al. 2024 ).