Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophilidae?

Posted by John Carr on 26-04-2021 22:06
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victorengel wrote:
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?


In the early 1900s some spelled the name Chiromyia.