Autofill confusion for warbling vireo

If you type in Orpheus to Species box under Explore, it autofills with “Warbling Vireo (orpheusvireo)”. If you type in “warbling vireo” the autofill doesn’t list “(orpheus)”. Any ideas why? And I can’t seem to find any info on where that name, orpheusvireo, comes from. Is it previous specific epithet?

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I’m pretty sure this is iNaturalist trying to tell you why Warbling Vireo is appearing in a search for “orpheus”.

If you go to the taxon page (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/17394-Vireo-gilvus), click on the taxonomy tab and then scroll down to names, you’ll see that orpheusvireo is listed as a Dutch common name for the species:

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