Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant
Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant
Here the details of the Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Anaeretes agraphia Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 32 p.263
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Uromyias
Taxonomy Code: unstit1
Type Locality: Idma, 9,000 ft., near Santa Ana, Peru.
Author: Chapman
Publish Year: 1919
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
UROMYIAS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Agile Tit Tyrant U. agilis) Gr. ουρα oura tail; Mod. L. myias flycatcher < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; πιαζω piazō to seize; "Uromyias genus nov. Nearly related to Spizitornis, but bill much shorter, wider and more depressed; rictal bristles much more developed; crest feathers on apical portion neither attenuated nor decurved; tail proportionately longer and strongly graduated, the distance between the shortest and longest rectrix being at least equal to length of tarsus; rectrices conspicuously pointed at the tip instead of bluntly rounded. Type Euscarthmus agilis SCLATER" (Hellmayr 1927).
agraphia
Gr. αγραφος agraphos unwritten < negative prefix α- a- ; γραφος graphos lines, writings < γραφω graphō to write.
SUBSPECIES
Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant (plengei)
SCI Name: Uromyias agraphia plengei
plengei
Manuel Alberto Plenge (b. 1937) Peruvian ornithologist (subsp. Asthenes fuliginosa, subsp. Uromyias agraphia).
Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant (squamiger)
SCI Name: Uromyias agraphia squamiger
squamiger / squamigera
L. squamiger scale-bearing, scaly < squama scale; -gera carrying < gerere to carry.
Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant (agraphia)
SCI Name: Uromyias agraphia agraphia
agraphia
Gr. αγραφος agraphos unwritten < negative prefix α- a- ; γραφος graphos lines, writings < γραφω graphō to write.
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)