Flavescent Flycatcher
Flavescent Flycatcher
Here the details of the Flavescent Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myiobius flavicans Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1860) (1860), Pt(28)3 p.464
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiophobus
Taxonomy Code: flafly2
Type Locality: Pallatanga, Ecuador and ''Bogota,'' Colombia; type from Pallatanga, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 246.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1861
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYIOPHOBUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Bran-coloured Flycatcher M. fasciatus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; φοβος phobos terror, fear, panic < φεβομαι phebomai to flee; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVII, labelled Muscicapinae: Muscipetinae & Platyrhynchinae, clearly shows the wide, heavily-bristled bill typical of a flycatcher, and the coronal streak of this group; "Myiophobus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 67. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa ferruginea Swainson = Muscicapa fasciata Müller." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 119) (see Empidochanes).
Synon. Empidochanes, Scotomyias.
flavicans
Mod. L. flavicans, flavicantis becoming yellow, yellowing < L. flavere to be golden-yellow < flavus golden, yellow.
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (Prinia).
● "96. LOXIA. ... flavicans. 10. L. flava, dorso virescente, capite fulvo. Chin. Lagerstr. 17. Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.).
● ex “Aldrovandus’s second bird of paradise” of Willughby 1676, “Manucodiata secunda Aldrovandi” of Ray 1713, “Apiaster flavicans” of Brisson 1760, “Guêpier à tête jaune et blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (unident.;?Paradisaea sp.).
SUBSPECIES
Flavescent Flycatcher (flavicans)
SCI Name: Myiophobus flavicans flavicans
flavicans
Mod. L. flavicans, flavicantis becoming yellow, yellowing < L. flavere to be golden-yellow < flavus golden, yellow.
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (Prinia).
● "96. LOXIA. ... flavicans. 10. L. flava, dorso virescente, capite fulvo. Chin. Lagerstr. 17. Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.).
● ex “Aldrovandus’s second bird of paradise” of Willughby 1676, “Manucodiata secunda Aldrovandi” of Ray 1713, “Apiaster flavicans” of Brisson 1760, “Guêpier à tête jaune et blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (unident.;?Paradisaea sp.).
Flavescent Flycatcher (perijanus)
SCI Name: Myiophobus flavicans perijanus
perijana / perijanus
Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela.
Flavescent Flycatcher (venezuelanus)
SCI Name: Myiophobus flavicans venezuelanus
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).
Flavescent Flycatcher (caripensis)
SCI Name: Myiophobus flavicans caripensis
caripensis
Caripe Caverns, Cumaná (= Monagas), Venezuela.
Flavescent Flycatcher (superciliosus)
SCI Name: Myiophobus flavicans superciliosus
superciliosa / superciliosum / superciliosus
L. superciliosus supercilious, haughty, eye-browed < supercilium eyebrow.
● ex “Supercilious Duck” of Latham 1785 (Anas).
● ex “Little Green and Orange-coloured Kingfisher” of Edwards 1758 (syn. Chloroceryle aenea).
● ex “Gorge-jaune de Saint-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 686, fig. 1 (syn. Dendroica dominica).
● ex “Rousseau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 66 (Lanius).
● ex “Apiaster madagascariensis” or “Guespier de Madagascar” of Brisson 1760 (Merops).
● ex “Yellow-browed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Phylloscopus humei).
● ex “Supercilious Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)