Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant
Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant
Here the details of the Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Taenioptera erythropygia Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1851) (1851), Pt19 no.231 p.193 pl.41
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Cnemarchus
Taxonomy Code: rrbtyr1
Type Locality: Ecuador; restricted to Verdecocha, Pichincha (J. T. Z.).
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1853
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CNEMARCHUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Red-rumped Bush Tyrant C. erythropygius) Gr. κνημος knēmos mountain-slope; αρχος arkhos ruler, chief < αρχω arkhō to rule; the Red-rumped Bush Tyrant was described from the high Andes of Ecuador; "Cnemarchus gen. nov. (Tyrannidae) Somewhat like Myiotheretes Reichenbach, but tarsus relatively much shorter (much less than twice as long as the relatively shorter middle toe, with claw); claw of hallux not longer than its digit; wing only moderately lengthened, the longer primaries exceeding secondaries by much less than twice the length of tarsus and much less than one-third (instead of nearly one-half) the total length of wing; outermost (tenth) primary shorter than sixth (instead of equalling or exceeding ninth) and not attenuated at tip; tail more than two-thirds as long as wing, even (instead of emarginate), extensively rufous in color; bristly tips of latero-frontal feathers well-developed, arched; bill relatively much smaller, the exposed culmen not longer than outer toe, without claw; rump rufous but no rufous on remiges. Type, Tænioptera erythropygia Sclater = Cnemarchus erythropygius. (Kνημος, slope of a mountain; αρχος, ruler, chief.)" (Ridgway 1905); "Cnemarchus Ridgway, 1905, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18, p. 208. Type, by original designation, Taenioptera erythropygia Sclater." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 160).
erythropygia / erythropygium / erythropygius
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
● ex “Red-rumped Creeper” of Latham 1801 (syn. Myzomela sanguinolenta).
SUBSPECIES
Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant (orinomus)
SCI Name: Cnemarchus erythropygius orinomus
orinoma / orinomus
Gr. ορεινομος oreinomos feeding on the hills < ορος oros, ορεος oreos mountain; -νομος -nomos -feeding < νεμω nemō to consume.
Red-rumped Bush-Tyrant (erythropygius)
SCI Name: Cnemarchus erythropygius erythropygius
erythropygia / erythropygium / erythropygius
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
● ex “Red-rumped Creeper” of Latham 1801 (syn. Myzomela sanguinolenta).
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)