Schlegel’s Asity

Schlegel\'s Asity / Philepitta schlegeli

Schlegel's Asity

Here the details of the Schlegel's Asity named bird below:

SCI Name:  Philepitta schlegeli
Protonym:  Philepitta schlegeli Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.422
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Philepittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  schasi1
Type Locality:  Madagascar.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1867
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DEFINITIONS

PHILEPITTA
(Philepittidae; Ϯ Velvet Asity P. castanea) Portmanteau of genera Philedon Cuvier, 1817, friarbird, and Pitta Vieillot, 1816, pitta; “Genre PHILÉPITTE, PHILEPITTA.  L'auteur compare successivement ce genre aux Brèves (Pitta), aux Martins, à divers sous-genres de Muscicapidés, et aux Philédons. Suivant M. Isidore Geoffroy, c'est près de ces derniers qu'il doit prendre rang.  ... PHILÉPITTE VÉLOUTÉE, Philepitta sericea” (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1839); "Philepitta Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1838, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 6, p. 440. Type, by monotypy, Philepitta sericea Geoffroy St.-Hilaire = P. castanea P. L. S. Müller." (Amadon in Peters 1979, VIII, 330). Recent research indicates that the Velvet Asity and its allies may be aberrant broadbills Eurylaimidae.
Var. Philopitta
Synon. Brissonia, Buddinghia, Paictes.

schlegeli
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Actitis hypoleucosArremon, syn. Bucorvus leadbeateri, Eudyptes, subsp. Henicophaps albifrons, subsp. Mandingoa nitidula, subsp. Penthoceryx sonneratii, Philepitta, syn. Pitta sordida cucullata, syn. Platysmurus leucopterus) (see schlegelii).