''Conocephalus conocephalus'' is the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
of the conehead genus ''
Conocephalus
''Conocephalus'' is a genus of bush-crickets, known as coneheads (a term also sometimes applied to members of the related genus '' Ruspolia''). It was described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1815.
Subgenera and species
The ''Orthoptera Species Fil ...
'' and the
bush cricket tribe
Conocephalini. This species has been recorded from southern Europe, including France,
[Chopard (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères, Faune de France, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris 3:212 pp., 466 figs.]
Biodiversity library
[Voisin d.(2003) ''Atlas des Orthoptères et des Mantides de France, Patrimoines Naturels'' 60: 1-104.] and Africa.
[Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 12 June 2021)]
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Described by Carl von Linné
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
in 1767, ''C. conocephalus'' appears to have no surviving type specimens, although it is believed that material may have been obtained from Africa.[
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References
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Conocephalinae
Orthoptera of Africa
Orthoptera of Europe