Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophilidae?

Posted by victorengel on 26-04-2021 20:38
#4

What's up with the spellings? BG has a note on how to distinguish Gymnochiromyia from Chyromya. The first part, "gymno" obviously refers to the naked portion of the scutellum. So then why is the rest spelled differently? A screw-up on the part of the taxonomist?