Oasis Hummingbird
Oasis Hummingbird
Here the details of the Oasis Hummingbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ornismya vesper Hist.Nat.Ois.-Mouches[Lesson] p.xv,85 pl.19
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Rhodopis
Taxonomy Code: oashum1
Type Locality: Chile.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1829
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
RHODOPIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Oasis Hummingbird R. vesper) Rodopis (fl. 500 BC), a famous Thracian courtesan or hetaira; "*Calliphlox ... *γ. Rhodopis vespera (Orn. vesper LESS. 1829.) RCHB. — Chili." (Reichenbach 1854); "Calliphlox γ Rhodopis Reichenbach, Journ. f. Orn., 1, 1854, Beil. zu Extrah., p. 12. Type, by monotypy, Ornismya vesper Lesson." (Peters 1945, V, 131).
Var. Rodophis, Rhodophis.
vesper / vespera
French name “Oiseau-mouche Vesper,” given to the Oasis Hummingbird by Lesson 1829, because it was believed to fly only during the evening < L. vesper, vesperis evening (Vesper Venus, the brightest star in the evening sky) (Rhodopis).
SUBSPECIES
Oasis Hummingbird (koepckeae)
SCI Name: Rhodopis vesper koepckeae
koepckeae
Maria Emilia Ana Koepcke née von Mikulicz-Radecki (1924-1971) German ornithologist in Peru 1949-1971, explorer, collector (Cacicus, Megascops, Pauxi, Phaethornis, subsp. Rhodopis vesper, Thinocorus).
Oasis Hummingbird (vesper)
SCI Name: Rhodopis vesper vesper
vesper / vespera
French name “Oiseau-mouche Vesper,” given to the Oasis Hummingbird by Lesson 1829, because it was believed to fly only during the evening < L. vesper, vesperis evening (Vesper Venus, the brightest star in the evening sky) (Rhodopis).
Oasis Hummingbird (atacamensis)
SCI Name: Rhodopis vesper atacamensis
atacamensis
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)