Nesokatoikos, Braun & Maehr, 2008

Braun, Holger & Maehr, Michael D., 2008, Nomenclatoral changes for some Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae), Zootaxa 1781 (1), pp. 67-68 : 67

Genus Nesokatoikos nom. nov.

Nesocnemis Beier, 1954

Preoccupied by Nesocnemis Sélys 1891 (Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg., 35, 401), described as a subgenus of damselfly ( Odonata, Zygoptera ), including the single species Nevrolestes (Nesocnemis) sinuatipennis , now included in genus Tatocnemis (Schorr et al.) . The name Nesocnemis actually first appeared in the literature several months earlier in June 1891 (An. Soc. españ. Hist. nat., 20, 216). Although this latter citation is found in both print and electronic versions of Nomenclator Zoologicus (Neave, 1939–2008), Sélys was apparently only considering using it as a replacement name for another genus thought to be a homonym.

The katydid name Nesocnemis is apparently derived from the name of the similar genus Condylocnemis Redtenbacher 1895 (in Brunner von Wattenwyl), which is based on the dilated foretibiae of the two species in that genus. The meaning of the preoccupied name based on the Greek words for island (nesos), referring to the endemicity of the unique species N. discoidalis to Jamaica, and tibia (cnemis) is unclear. The new name means island inhabitant (from Greek katoikos).

Included species: Nesokatoikos discoidalis (Walker, 1870) comb. nov.