Ruspolia remotus Walker, 1869:326

Remote conehead katydid, Hawaiian cone-headed katydid

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Conocephaloides remotus Walker, 1869:326; Euconocephalus remotus Walker, 1869:326; Enconocephalus remotus Walker, 1869:326 [orth. error by Orthopteroid Specialist Group, 1996a]

Conservation Status

Missing (NatureServe, 2026)

IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable

Distribution & Habitat

Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Walker, F. (1869). Catalog of Specimens of Dermaptera, Saltatoria, and Supplement to the Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. 2: 225-423. British Museum (Natural History).

Other references:

Bailey, W. J. (1979). A review of Australian Copiphorini (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae). Aust. J. Zool. 27: 1015-1049.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). (1994). 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. (1990). IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

NatureServe. (2026). Ruspolia remotus: Remote Conehead Katydid. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 14 September 2026]

Nishida, G. M. (ed.). (2002). Hawaiian terrestrial arthropod checklist, fourth edition. Hawaii Biological Survey Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Technical Report No. 22 Online. Available from: hbs.bishopmuseum.org/hbsdb.html

OSG (Orthopteroid Specialist Group). (1996a). Enconocephalus remotus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 August 2012.

OSG (Orthopteroid Specialist Group). (1996b). Euconocephalus remotus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T39313A10192953. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T39313A10192953.en. Accessed on 14 September 2026.

Shapiro, L. H., Strazanac, J. S. and Roderick, G. K. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of Banza (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), the endemic katydids of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41(1): 53-63.

Strazanac, John Sanford. (1996). Hawaiian endemic Copiphorini: systematics and acoustics (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Conocephalinae). PhD thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1989). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; animal notice of review. Federal Register 54(4): 554-579.

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