Editing Lytta vesicatoria (section)

== Etymology and taxonomy ==

The [[Generic name (biology)|generic name]] is from the Greek λύττα (''lytta''), meaning martial rage, raging madness, [[Bacchantes|Bacchic frenzy]], or [[rabies]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |title=λύττα, λυττάω, λυττητικός, etc., v. λυσς-. |url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%84%CF%84%CE%B1 |publisher=Liddell & Scott |access-date=14 February 2017 |date=1940}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |title=λύσσα |url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho/%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%84%CF%84%CE%B1 |publisher=Liddell & Scott|access-date=14 February 2017 |date=1940}}</ref> The [[Specific name (botany)|specific name]] is derived from Latin ''vesica'', blister.<ref>{{cite web |title=Latin definition for: vesica, vesicae |url=https://latin-dictionary.net/definition/38654/vesica-vesicae |website=Latin Dictionary & Grammar Resources |access-date=19 January 2022}}</ref>

''Lytta vesicatoria'' was formerly named ''Cantharis vesicatoria'',<ref name=FarlexDict12/> although the genus ''[[Cantharis]]'' is in an unrelated family, [[Cantharidae]], the soldier beetles.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Selander |first=Richardg B. |year=1991 |title=On the Nomenclature and Classification of Meloidae (Coleoptera) |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1415&context=insectamundi |journal=Insecta Mundi |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=65–94 }}</ref> It was classified there erroneously until the Danish zoologist [[Johan Christian Fabricius]] corrected its name in his ''Systema entomologiae'' in 1775. He reclassified the Spanish fly as the [[type species]] of the new genus ''[[Lytta]]'', in the family [[Meloidae]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Selander |first=R. B. |year=1991 |title=On the nomenclature and classification of Meloidae (Coleoptera)] |journal=[[Insecta Mundi]] |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=65–94 |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1415&context=insectamundi}}</ref>