Kalahari Scrub-Robin

Kalahari Scrub-Robin / Cercotrichas paena

Kalahari Scrub-Robin

Here the details of the Kalahari Scrub-Robin named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cercotrichas paena
Protonym:  Erythropygia paena Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.46
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  kasrob1
Type Locality:  between Latakoo and the Tropic [= north of Kuruman, northern Cape Province] .
Author:  
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CERCOTRICHAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Black Scrub Robin C. podobe) Gr. κερκος kerkos  tail; τριχας trikhas, τριχαδος trikhados  thrush; alluding to the long, expressive tail of the Black Scrub Robin; "Cercotrichas.  Unter diesen Namen vereinige ich Turdus phoenicopterus Tem.  T. erythropterus, T. macrourus Lath.  T. tricolor Vieill. Afr. pl. 14.  Sax. leucampter Museum Berl." (Boie 1831); "Cercotrichas Boie, 1831, Isis, p. 542. Type, by subsequent designation (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, Vög. Ost.-Afr., p. 249), Turdus erythropterus Gmelin = Turdus podobe Müller." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 27). 
Synon. Aedon, AgrobatesErythropygia, Podobeus.

paena
Tswana name Phêna or Phênê for the Kalahari Scrub Robin; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836) (Cercotrichas).

SUBSPECIES

Kalahari Scrub-Robin (benguellensis)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena benguellensis
benguelae / benguelensis / benguellensis
Benguella (= Benguela), Angola.

Kalahari Scrub-Robin (damarensis)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

Kalahari Scrub-Robin (paena)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena paena
paena
Tswana name Phêna or Phênê for the Kalahari Scrub Robin; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836) (Cercotrichas).

Kalahari Scrub-Robin (oriens)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena oriens
oriens
L. oriens, orientis east.