Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Systenus scholtzi or scholtzii (Dolichopodidae)
Posted by Leif Bloss Carstensen on 17-11-2020 12:32
#1
I have reared a male from a rot hole in a beech. The keys I used spell the species name "scholtzi". On various internet pages, however, the name is "scholtzii". (Loew, 1850).
What is the correct spelling?
Kind regards
Leif
Edited by Leif Bloss Carstensen on 17-11-2020 12:32
Posted by Tony Irwin on 17-11-2020 18:39
#2
I believe "scholtzii" is correct - that's how Loew spells it!
Posted by Andrzej on 17-11-2020 19:02
#3
Similar as in
Suillia mikii - the species name derives from the Latin second declension: from Mik (genetivus: miki + i, if the name was proposed before 1930) (if I correctly remember the old rules of the naming species). So
scholtzii (Loew, 1850) is correct!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 17-11-2020 19:04
#4
I think it was Mik -> latinised Mikius -> genitivus mikii
Posted by Andrzej on 17-11-2020 19:07
#5
|t of course, so we solve the problem ;)
Posted by Andrzej on 17-11-2020 19:11
#6
Now, according to the "new rules" a species named after Mik should be
miki only ;)
Posted by Leif Bloss Carstensen on 18-11-2020 12:54
#7
Thank you, Tony, Andrzej and Paul. Now I know why some names have 2 x i and other only one. :)
I will use scholtzii in my spreadsheet.
Edited by Leif Bloss Carstensen on 18-11-2020 12:55