Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown fly

Posted by Igor Grichanov on 15-12-2006 15:23
#18

volva, volvula, volvus, volvulus,
all these words are nouns with different meanings.

Fauna Europaea gives original combination:
Musca volvulus Fabricius 1794
and the genus name Phyllomya (sic!)

Changeable adjectives would be volvulatus, volvulaceus, volvuliformis etc.