Glowing Puffleg
Glowing Puffleg
Here the details of the Glowing Puffleg named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ornismya vestita Rev.Zool. 1(1838) p.314
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eriocnemis
Taxonomy Code: glopuf2
Type Locality: Bogota, Colombia.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ERIOCNEMIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Coppery-bellied Puffleg E. cupreoventris) Gr. εριον erion wool; κνημις knēmis, κνημιδος knēmidos boot, legging. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, clearly shows the fluffy tarsal tufts typical of these hummingbirds; "The sexes are very much alike, and both have the white muff-like decoration on the leg, but it is not so much developed in the female as in the male" (Gould 1861); "Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Eriopus simplex Gould = Trochilus cupreo-ventris Fraser (Gould, Monogr. Trochil. pt. 3, 1852, pl. [8] and text)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 108).
Var. Eriocnemys, Euryocnemis.
Synon. Aline, Derbyomyia, Engyete, Erebenna, Eriona, Eriopus, Luciania, Mosqueria, Nania, Niche, Phemonoe, Pholoe, Threptria, Vestipedes.
vestita / vestitus
L. vestitus clothed, adorned < vestire to adorn < vestis garment, clothing.
SUBSPECIES
Glowing Puffleg (paramillo)
SCI Name: Eriocnemis vestita paramillo
paramillo
Paramillo, Colombia.
Glowing Puffleg (vestita)
SCI Name: Eriocnemis vestita vestita
vestita / vestitus
L. vestitus clothed, adorned < vestire to adorn < vestis garment, clothing.
Glowing Puffleg (smaragdinipectus)
SCI Name: Eriocnemis vestita smaragdinipectus
smaragdinipectus
L. smaragdinus of the emerald < smaragdus emerald < Gr. σμαραγδος smaragdos emerald; pectus, pectoris breast.
Glowing Puffleg (arcosae)
SCI Name: Eriocnemis vestita arcosae
arcosae / arcosi
Dr Laura Arcos Terán (b. 1938) Ecuadorean biologist (subsp. Eriocnemis vestita).
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)