Rufous-bellied Niltava
Rufous-bellied Niltava
Here the details of the Rufous-bellied Niltava named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Niltava Sundara Ind.Rev. 1 p.650
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Niltava
Taxonomy Code: rubnil1
Type Locality: Nepal.
Author: Hodgson
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NILTAVA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Rufous-bellied Niltava N. sundara) Nepalese name Niltau for the Rufous-bellied Niltava; "Genus Niltava nobis. Niltau of Nepal. ... Habits, forest-haunting, arboreal and terrestrial, but chiefly the former, exploring foliage. Food, various sorts of soft and hard, perfect and imperfect, insects. Bugs, fire-flies, tiny coleoptera, caterpillars, ants, pulpy berries, and hard seeds, the latter chiefly in winter. Solitary. Never seize on wing. Habitat central region of the hills. 1st species and type. Niltava Sundara nobis." (Hodgson 1837) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz).
Var. Miltava.
Synon. Bainopus, Chaitaris, Microbainopus.
sundara
Hindi sundar beautiful (Niltava).
SUBSPECIES
Rufous-bellied Niltava (whistleri)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara whistleri
whistleri
Hugh Whistler (1889-1943) Indian Police in the Punjab 1909-1932, naturalist, collector (subsp. Anthus pratensis, subsp. Cettia brunnifrons, subsp. Garrulax albogularis, syn. Leptocoma zeylonica flaviventris, subsp. Niltava sundara, subsp. Periparus rubidiventris, Phylloscopus, subsp. Pycnonotus jocosus, syn. Sitta himalayensis, subsp. Tarsiger chrysaeus).
Rufous-bellied Niltava (sundara)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara sundara
sundara
Hindi sundar beautiful (Niltava).
Rufous-bellied Niltava (denotata)
SCI Name: Niltava sundara denotata
denotata
L. denotatus marked out, pointed out < denotare to designate.
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)