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Separate from the question of the actual " closeness " of Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha is the potential disruption to traditional construction of names ; there seems to be reluctance among hemipterists to abandon the use of " Heteroptera ".

This can be seen by the name itself, as it is a violation of convention to use the ending "- ptera " for any rank above genus other than an order – though since it is a convention rather than a mandatory rule of Linnean nomenclature, taxonomists are technically free to violate it ( which is why, for example, not all insect orders end in "- ptera ", e. g., Odonata ).

However, in most cases when such conventions are violated, it does not create an internal conflict as in the present case ( that is, the order Hemiptera has a suborder named Heteroptera, which is an internal conflict ).

At least some hemipterists argue that the name Heteroptera should be dropped entirely to eliminate this internal conflict, though the third possibility offers a workaround.

In that case, to achieve full consistency of names " Coleorrhyncha " would probably be dropped in favor of " Peloridiomorpha ".