The common swamp cicada used to be Tibicen tibicen tibicen – a trinomial with all names the same. It has since been reclassified as Neotibicen tibicen tibicen. Now, Neotibicen means “new tibicen,” suggesting that it is a new genus split off from Tibicen, and implying the continued existence of (old) Tibicen. Now, when a genus is split, the original name always stays with the type species. Tibicen tibicen was not the type species of Tibicen?
Bison bison bison - plains bison
According to Wikipedia, Tibicen has been split and abandoned. There’s another cicada genus Tibicina, in the subfamily Tibicininae. Tibicen was in subfamily Tibiceninae, but as the stem of Latin tībīcen is tībīcin-, people often misspelled the subfamily and got the two confused. (The stress on Tibicen, as implied by the long vowels, is on the second syllable. I’m not sure if the third ‘i’ in Tibicina is long too.)
What the lame Crayfish do?
I have entire lists of these:
Lepidoptera: https://inaturalist.ca/lists/4412389-Lepidopterans-with-Silly-Names
Other taxa: https://inaturalist.ca/lists/4448111-Other-organisms-with-silly-names
Updated quite frequently :)
That still doesn’t resolve the wierd bit, though. The new subfamily is Cicadinae, the tribe is Tacuni, and the subtribe Tacuina. If Tibicen tibicen had been a type species at one of these levels, we would expect something like Neotibiceninae (or the appropriate ending for the taxonomic rank), because name changes higher up still follow the type genus, which is the genus containing the type species.
The type species was Tibicen plebejus, now Lyristes plebejus. Another case of the nominate species not being the type species is Giraffa, whose type species is G. camelopardalis, not G. giraffa.
Common Dolphins and their subsequent splitting of the species, since marine biologists refused to come up with a unique common name and just continued adding specifiers. A short history provided below:
Beginning
- Common Dolphin
Split 1
- Long-beaked Common Dolphin
- Short-beaked Common Dolphin
Split 2
- Indo-Pacific Long-beaked Common Dolphin
- Eastern Pacific Long-beaked Common Dolphin
- Short-beaked Common Dolphin
Not to mention the Conformist and the Nonconformist ( Lithophane-furcifera,Lithophane lamda).
There is a species of dragonfly called the “Granite Ghost”. It made me laugh the first time I saw it, but it sort of makes sense now because when they are perched on rocks, there transparent wings and grey body make them almost invisible, like ghosts. Here’s my observation of it.
Nolina lindheimeriana and two species of Viburnum (opulus and lantanoides) all share the common name of Devil’s Shoestring.
Colorless aphids sleep furiously, if they belong to the genus Greenidea.
Filistatinella howdyall
(Texans will understand)
How did you fog it like that? 
(the name)
I did it! thanks, @jasonhernandez74
Large Cockchafer (Melolontha pectoralis), link to taxon provided showing I didn’t make this up!
As a Texan I completely understand
I will never get the bumblebee genus (Bombus). It just sounds so strange to me!
Perplexing Bumble Bee ( Bombus perplexus )