Crested Black-Tyrant

Crested Black-Tyrant / Knipolegus lophotes

Crested Black-Tyrant

Here the details of the Crested Black-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Knipolegus lophotes
Protonym:  Knipolegus lophotes Isis 21 col.317
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  crbtyr1
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Publish Year:  1828
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DEFINITIONS

KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos  insect; λεγω legō  to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors.  Muscicapa Lin. 2   ...   2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis). 
Var. Cnipolegus.   
Synon. AdaBlechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.

lophotes
Gr. λοφωτος lophōtos crested < λοφος lophos crest.
● ex “Muscicapa lophotes” of Temminck MS, and Boie 1826 (nom. nud.) (Knipolegus).

Lophotes
(syn. Aviceda Ϯ Black Baza A. leuphotes) Specific name Falco lophotes Temminck, 1820 (= Aviceda leuphotes); "Sous-genre. LOPHOTE; Lophotes.   ...  20. LOPHOTE INDIEN; Lophotes indicus: Hobereau huppart, Falco lophotes, Temm., pl. 10.  Bec et tarses plombés; tête et cou bleu-noir, plusieurs longues plumes implantées dans l'occiput et roides" (Lesson 1831).