gender in species names

Gary Anweiler gganweiler at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 9 22:57:54 EST 2006


Greeting all

I see that a lot of noctuid names (and others ?)  that previously ended in "a" (Euxoa terrena, E. tronella) are now showing up ending in "us" (E. tronellus etc.). Can anyone tell me what this is based on and what is the correct current use.  

Thanks muchly

Gary Anweiler
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