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Black/blue fly with orange face -> Cynomya/Cynomyia mortuorum
Karola
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Hello,

the size was less than 1 cm.

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Cynomyia mortuorum (Calliphoridae)

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Thank you.
The name often is written Cynomya mortuorum, I wonder which is the correct spelling...

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Karola wrote:
Thank you.
The name often is written Cynomya mortuorum, I wonder which is the correct spelling...

Karola


The endings in -myia are correct human language. The ancient Greek word for fly is μυῖᾰ. The standard transliteration of ancient Greek replaces iota with Latin i.

The endings in -mya are correct zoological nomenclature. Robineau-Desvoidy misspelled the word back in 1830 and one is not supposed to correct incorrect spellings of classical words.

Somebody, possibly James O'Hara at the CNC, wrote a paper collecting the many variant spellings of names by the old European dipterists.
 
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As well known, it is my strong opinion that science is (also) about correcting mistakes and nurish them, as the current Code does.
Lawyers should not be given space in science.

Theo
 
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OK, both versions are used, I can live with it.

Karola
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