Gray’s Grasshopper-Warbler

Gray\'s Grasshopper-Warbler / Locustella fasciolata

Gray's Grasshopper-Warbler

Here the details of the Gray's Grasshopper-Warbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Locustella fasciolata
Protonym:  Acrocephalus fasciolatus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1860) (1860), Pt(28)3 p.349
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae /
Taxonomy Code:  grgwar1
Type Locality:  Batchian (= Batjan), Moluccas.
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Publish Year:  1861
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DEFINITIONS

LOCUSTELLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Common Grasshopper Warbler L. naevia) Specific name Sylvia locustella Latham 1790  < Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper  < dim. L. locusta  grasshopper; from the whirring, high-pitched, insect-like song of the Common Grasshopper Warbler; "3. Sylvia locustella.   ...   3. Heuschreckensänger. Locustella.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.   Ch[arakter]. Rohrsänger mit geflecktem Kopf, Rücken und unteren Schwanzdeckfedern.   L[ebensart]. Sie gleichen den Rohrsängern, leben aber sehr versteckt." (Kaup 1829); "Locustella Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 115. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia locustella Latham = Motacilla naevia Boddaert." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 50) (see Salicaria).
Synon. Acridiornis, Aedonops, Aedonopsis, Dilara, Luscinioides, Lusciniopsis, Parnopia, Philomelopsis, Potamodus, Pseudoluscinia, Psithyroedus, Salicaria, Sibilatrix, Threnetria.

locustella
Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper   < dim. L. locusta grasshopper.
● ex “Locustelle” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Locustella naevia).
● ex “Grasshopper Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Locustella naevia).

fasciolata / fasciolatus
Med. L. fasciolatus  bandaged  < L. fasciola  little band  < dim. fascia  band.