Flag for Taxon: Calycomyza flavinotum
| Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
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| bouteloua | Calycomyza flavinotum |
discussion about name "Burdock Blotch Miner Fly" |
May. 8, 2020 14:41:05 +0000 | ceiseman |
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I don't remember really well, but it might have been to parallel Liriomyza arctii's name
I added the name "fly" as a light modification to indicate to users that the animal is a dipteran. It’s a practice done (and even enforced by some name committees) for many insect orders. I assumed "Burdock Blotch Miner" was already established elsewhere.
The closest equivalency I could find is the use of the name "burdock leaf miner" for the fly Agromyza aculosa in The Handbook of Insect Enemies of Flowers and Shrubs (1948) (https://books.google.com/books?id=Owg4O2-f2zQC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=%22Burdock%22+Blotch+Miner&source=bl&ots=fkjOZMAwOo&sig=ACfU3U3a8BfWWMaCung4sRUx9rBjMbyd4g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia2L6p2qTpAhWUknIEHSA9ARAQ6AEwDXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Burdock%22%20Blotch%20Miner&f=false). I have been unable to track down a more recent mentioning of A. aculosa, so it may be treated as a junior synonym of another species now. I wonder if it’s Calycomyza flavinotum.
That being said, searching "Burdock Blotch Miner Fly" online only links back to iNaturalist.
(I stupidly misread the name - the species in the book is Agromyza maculosa, which today seems to mostly be treated as Amauromyza maculosa.
Nemorimyza maculosa is the correct common name for that species. A good example of how common names for leafminers cause confusion!
@astrobirder that's what I assumed, and it was a reasonable thing to do, but as far as I know Liriomyza arctii doesn't have an established common name either--and like Calycomyza flavinotum, it has a number of other host plants. It strikes me as a little weird to have two native species named after a nonnative plant that they happen to have incorporated into their diets, though with L. arctii it is also justified by the Latin name. I think there are a lot of cases of common names on iNat being derived from the title a BugGuide user gave to an image (such as https://bugguide.net/node/view/1007506/bgpage).
Oh, that's definitely an issue with BugGuide. There are people who do not discern an official adopted name on the site from the description that a user gives a photo. I run into that problem from time-to-time.
I think it would be a good idea to delete these names from Calycomyza flavinotum.
Okay, will do. Thanks for your input!
@astrobirder @bobby23 what was the origin of the names burdock blotch miner and burdock blotch miner fly?
thanks!
cc: @ceiseman