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  tribe Conocephalini Burmeister, 1838
genus Conocephalus Thunberg, 1815
subgenus Xiphidion Serville, 1831

species Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus (Fabricius, 1793)

• Nomenclatural details:  Not fuscus of Pallas
• Images: (28) See all images
  • female (Poland, Poznan)
  • pronotum, lateral view (Xiphidium fuscum, ca. = callus convexus)
  • female (Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Elbe floodplains near Vockerode)
• Sound recordings:
  • France, Propiac, 26
• Distribution:
  • 
  • Alternate map showing individual locality records
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (25):
  • Fabricius. 1793. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae 2:43 >> Locusta fusca
  • Serville. 1831. Ann. Sci. nat. Paris 22(86):159 >> Xiphidion fuscum  
  • Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères 506 >> Xiphidion fuscum  
  • Frauenfeld. 1861. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 11:99 >> Xiphidium fuscum
  • Frivaldsky. 1867. Magyarországi Egyenesröpüek magánrajza. (Monographia Orthopterorum Hungariae) 111 >> Xiphidium fuscum  
  • Bolívar, I. 1873. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 2:226 >> Xiphidium fuscum  
  • Redtenbacher. 1891. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 41:508 >> Xiphidium (Xiphidium) fuscum  
  • Pantel. 1896. An. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. 25:99 >> Xiphidium fuscum  
  • Bolívar, I. 1899. Ann. Soc. Entom. Belgique 43:600 >> Xiphidium fuscum  
  • Karny. 1907. Berlin Ent. Z. 52:24 >> Xiphidion fuscum  
  • Chopard. 1922. Faune de France 3:50, 73 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus  
  • Hebard. 1925. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 51:49 >> Conocephalus fuscus  
  • Roberts. 1941. Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 67:13, 31, 32 >> Note: p. 13: species name is homonym, C. discolor next available name >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) discolor  
  • Harz. 1969. Ser. Entomol. 5:188 >> Note: C. fuscus as syn. >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) discolor  
  • Jin, Xingbao & Hsia. 1994. Jour. Orth. Res. 3:32 >> Conocephalus fuscus
  • Otte, D. 1997. Orthoptera Species File 7:45 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus fuscus
  • Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Articulata Beiheft 7:83 >> Note: not homonym of Gryllus fuscus Pallas 1773 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus
  • Defaut. 1999. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 2:10 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus
  • Defaut. 2000. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 5:38 >> Conocephalus fuscus
  • Defaut [Ed.]. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France 12 >> Conocephalus (Xiphidion) fuscus
  • Braud, Sardet & Morin. 2002. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 7:7 >> Conocephalus fuscus
  • Ünal. 2006. Priamus 3:8 >> Conocephalus (Anisoptera) fuscus
  • Storozhenko & Paik. 2007. Orthoptera of Korea 52 >> Conocephalus (Anisoptera) discolor
  • Sahnoun, Doumandji & Desutter-Grandcolas. 2010. Zootaxa 2432:21 >> Conocephalus discolor
  • Zhou, M., W. Bi & Xia-wei Liu. 2010. Zootaxa 2527:58 >> Conocephalus (Anisoptera) discolor  
• Scrutiny:
  • Braun, 2010, Numerous citations are under C. discolor, which for a long time has been and by some authors is still considered the valid name (but see Coray & Lehmann 1998). Since fuscus is the type species of Xiphidion, it cannot be moved under subgenus Anisoptera.
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Europe
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Status of type:  lost
  • Location of type:  Lost

• synonym concolor (Bolívar, 1876-1878)
• synonym dilatatus Ramme, 1951
• synonym discolor Thunberg, 1815
• synonym ponticus (Nedelkov, 1907)
• synonym thoracicus (Fischer von Waldheim, 1846)
• synonym turanicus Semenov, 1916

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