Making a common name for Oudemansiella gigaspora

[upupa-epops]

I know at least here in North America a field guide for hover flies was published relatively recently that included common names for every species, many of them newly invented for the purpose of the guide. Some of them sound remarkably similar to your hilarious improvised name! This approach worked fairly well for dragonflies but it gets more and more impractical the further the subjects get from being charismatic megafauna. There are just too many insects/fungi with too many minute similarities for common names for every species to work well.

E.g. I talked about this before with Condylosylus flies:

@upupa-epops

“Shiny green flies” is too vague; most people are more familiar with the even-more-ubiquitous blow flies which also match that description. “Jewel flies” is taken by a genus of shiny green hover flies (I think this name was proposed by a relatively recent field guide). “Green/Jewel leaf flies” feels a bit awkward… The more adjectives you add, the more awkward it sounds, especially if you want to add common names for specific species as well… Eastern Black-winged Jewel Leaf Fly? Larger tiny shiny green leaf-running fly with row of bristles on the mid tibia but not on the mid basitarsus? Smooth-shinned vs Rough-shinned Jewel Leaf Fly?? It gets weird trying to apply normal vocabulary to insects.