Cobalt-winged Parakeet

Cobalt-winged Parakeet / Brotogeris cyanoptera

Cobalt-winged Parakeet

Here the details of the Cobalt-winged Parakeet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Brotogeris cyanoptera
Protonym:  Sittace cyanoptera Orn.Brasil. Abth.3 p.260
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  cowpar1
Type Locality:  G. R. Gray
Author:  
Publish Year:  1870
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

BROTOGERIS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Grey-cheeked Parakeet B. pyrrhoptera) Gr. βροτογηρυς brotogērus  with human voice  < βροτος brotos  man; γηρυς gērus  voice. This epithet of the parrot was first mentioned by Crinagoras (1st cent. AD). "Brotogeris. ‡  ...  ‡ BROTOGERIS.  Rostrum attenuatum compressum: mandibula inferiore elongata vix emarginata. Alæ mediocres: remigibus tribus primis fere æqualibus. Pedes mediocres. Cauda subelongata, gradata.  Typus genericus. Ps. pyrrhopterus. Lath." (Vigors 1825); "Brotogeris Vigors, Zool. Journ., 2, 1825, p. 400.  Type, by original designation, Psittacus pyrrhopterus Latham." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 205).
Var. BratogerisBrotogerys.
Synon. Caica, Psittacula, Psittovius, Sittace, Tirica.

cyanoptera
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros dark-winged, blue-winged < κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Pato alas azules” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 434 (Spatula).
● ex “Lindo saihobí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 92 (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Cobalt-winged Parakeet (cyanoptera)
SCI Name: Brotogeris cyanoptera cyanoptera
cyanoptera
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros dark-winged, blue-winged < κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Pato alas azules” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 434 (Spatula).
● ex “Lindo saihobí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 92 (Tangara).

Cobalt-winged Parakeet (gustavi)
SCI Name: Brotogeris cyanoptera gustavi
gustavi
● Gustaaf Schlegel (1840-1903) Dutch ornithologist, Sinologist (Anthus).
● Gustav Garlepp (1862-1907) German collector in tropical America 1883-1897 (Brotogeris, syn. Creurgops dentata).

Cobalt-winged Parakeet (beniensis)
SCI Name: Brotogeris cyanoptera beniensis
beniensis
● Beni, Ituri District, Belgian Congo / DR Congo (subsp. Accipiter castanilius).
● Río Beni, Madre de Dios, Pando, Bolivia (subsp. Brotogeris cyanoptera, subsp. Chrysomus cyanopus, subsp. Cnemotriccus fuscatus).
● Dpto. Beni, northern Bolivia (subsp. Tangara (Thraupis) sayaca).