Oleaginous Hemispingus

Here the details of the Oleaginous Hemispingus named bird below:

SCI Name:  Sphenopsis frontalis
Protonym:  H.[ylophilus] frontalis Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.284
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sphenopsis
Taxonomy Code:  olehem1
Type Locality:  Peru ; east slope of the Peruvian Andes, fide Tschudi, 1846, Unters. Faun. Peru., Aves, p. 195.
Author:  von Tschudi
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPHENOPSIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Oleaginous Hemispingus S. frontalis ignobilis) Gr. σφην sphēn, σφηνος sphēnos  wedge; οψις opsis  appearance; "Sphenopsis, genus novum ex familia Dendrocolaptidarum, affine Philydori et ejusmodi formis plerumque Anabatis dictis.  ...  Typ. et sp. unica S. ignobilis, sp. nov.  ...  It is remarkable for the short, straight, conical bill, in which it differs from all the allied species that I am acquainted with" (P. Sclater 1861); Sclater believed his single imperfect specimen to be a furnarid allied to Philydor.
Var. Sphenops (Gr. ωψ ōps countenance).

frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis  fronted, frontal  < frontalia or frontale  frontlet  < frons, frontis  forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).

SUBSPECIES

Oleaginous Hemispingus (frontalis)
SCI Name: Sphenopsis frontalis frontalis
frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis  fronted, frontal  < frontalia or frontale  frontlet  < frons, frontis  forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).

Oleaginous Hemispingus (ignobilis)
SCI Name: Sphenopsis frontalis ignobilis
ignobilis
L. ignobilis obscure, undistinguished, ordinary, plain < in- not; nobilis (old form gnobilis) well-known < noscere (old form gnoscere) to know.

Oleaginous Hemispingus (flavidorsalis)
SCI Name: Sphenopsis frontalis flavidorsalis
flavidorsalis
L. flavus yellow; dorsalis (properly dorsualis) dorsal, of the back < dorsum back.

Oleaginous Hemispingus (hanieli)
SCI Name: Sphenopsis frontalis hanieli
hanieli
Dr Curt Berthold Haniel (1886-1951) German zoologist, collector in tropical America, and the East Indies (with his cousin Curt Alfons Haniel (1884-1914)) (Dicaeum, subsp. Falco longipennis, subsp. Sphenopsis frontalis).

Oleaginous Hemispingus (iterata)
SCI Name: Sphenopsis frontalis iterata
iterata / iteratus
L. iteratus  repeated  < iterare  to repeat  < iterum  again.
● "Most closely resembling Saltator aurantiirostris bolivianus Chapman [= syn. Saltator aurantiirostris hellmayri] of the Temperate Zone in Bolivia, the black areas on the breast and sides of the throat as in that race" (Chapman 1927) (subsp. Saltator aurantiirostris).
● "Most nearly resembling Hemispingus frontalis ignobilis (Sclater) of the Subtropical Zone of western Venezuela but entire underparts with a stronger ochraceous tone, this difference particularly pronounced on the abdominal region. Similar to Hemispingus frontalis hanieli Hellmayr and Seilern of the Subtropical Zone of north-central Venezuela but more yellow throughout, the upperparts greener" (Chapman 1929) (subsp. Sphenopsis frontalis).