Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mycetophila?

Posted by John Carr on 12-01-2021 16:41
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Fungivora is an old name for Myceophila, along with Tendipes for Chironomus and several more. There was a 50 year long dispute among entomologists over whether to use names from an early version of Meigen's classification of Diptera published in 1800 or different names from the final version published in 1803. In the 1960s the authorities decided to use the 1803 names.