A genus of insects, particularly grasshoppers and crickets, with cone-shaped heads.
From Greek kōnos (cone) + kephalē (head), with -us being the Latin masculine singular ending for genus names. The name describes the distinctive conical head shape characteristic of these insects.
Conocephalus grasshoppers are called 'cone-headed grasshoppers' because of their incredibly pointy heads—and imagine being a bug taxonomist and deciding that was a distinctive enough feature to name an entire genus after!
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