Posted by John Carr on 22-02-2023 18:08
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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.