Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Green tachinid?
Posted by javig on 12-04-2008 18:28
#1
Granada, Southern Spain, 1800 m., April 2008
thx
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 12-04-2008 18:38
#2
Gymnochaeta sp.
Posted by javig on 12-04-2008 20:42
#3
Thanks Jorge!
The only species in Spain is Gymnochaeta viridis... although Iberfauna database said Gymnocheta instead of Gymnochaeta
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 12-04-2008 20:44
#4
no!!! it is wrong! IT IS *REALLY* Gymnoch
AEta
see the other thread about Gymnochaeta. :)
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 12-04-2008 20:44
Posted by Juergen Peters on 12-04-2008 21:05
#6
Hello, Jorge!
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
no!!! it is wrong! IT IS *REALLY* GymnochAEta
see the other thread about Gymnochaeta. :)
I would also prefer the orthographically correct spelling. But isn't there a rule that even wrong spelled names remain valid if used in the literature for more than 50 years or so?
For example: many authors use
Xanthorhoe quadrifasciata for the Geometrid moth, but by experts in the lepiforum I was told that the valid name is still
X. quadrifasiata without the 'c', although orthographically incorrect.
And so the names
Gymnochaeta (and
Campylochaeta etc.) are noted as uncorrect emendations in "Entomofauna germanica". Very confusing for a layman when searching for species with one spelling and not finding them because differently spelled on websites etc... :(
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-04-2008 18:53
#7
I think the correct spelling is Xanthorhoe quadrifasciata it doesn't make sense saying: quadrifasiata -- it is misspelling! clearly! It is something like calling fascism as fasism :S
Don't trust what a book says! We always must use critical spirit. The correct spelling is Gymnochaeta. There are plenty examples in Latin: we spell
chamAEleon and
not Cham
Eleon. Or we say
chimAEra and
not chim
Era.
Of course, don't even trust me. lol I'm not the absolute truth. :p
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 13-04-2008 19:05
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-04-2008 19:04
#8
more:
fasciata means STRIPE - referring that the lepidopter has 4 (from
quadri) stripes in the wings. It doesn't exist such thing as fasiata :S
Posted by Juergen Peters on 13-04-2008 23:24
#9
Hello, Jorge!
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
fasciata means STRIPE - referring that the lepidopter has 4 (from quadri) stripes in the wings. It doesn't exist such thing as fasiata :S
It's clear, that the spelling is orthographically incorrect. But, hey - taxonomy is not orthography... There are many very strange names in the system, and I don't know the IUZN rules well enough to tell whether a taxonname is correct (to taxonomy, not orthography) for some priority reasons or customary law...
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-04-2008 23:30
#10
:) I'm pretty sure that taxonomy rules defend that quadrifasciata is the correct one. They follow the Latin/Greek rules. ;) Taxonomy also is correct spelling. :P I will consult IUZN (but not now. :P it will take a while)
And yeah, that's true: there are many very strange names... but it doesn't mean they could be correct. :P Also the same for vice-versa. :P