Posted by crex on 10-12-2006 13:45
#8
Tony Irwin wrote:
Mmmm... I have to say that I tend to follow the British Check List as on the Diptera Forum website.
http://www.dipter..._intro.php
As a rule, Peter Chandler is very fussy about getting things right. It isn't a matter of personal taste. There are rules which should be followed so that we can all use the same names, and end up with a stable, agreed list.
I didn't mean that everyone could make their own names up, and certainly not that you made a mistake, but it's a fact that not all follow the same standard. I'm not getting into a debate about this. I think often there are a choice of preserving an old faulty name or choosing a new proper one that might add to the confusion, because when you change a name there are going to be two names for the same species in literature etc ... When I report my findings I have to use the name that is used in Sweden to be able to report it at all.