Amazonian Black-Tyrant

Amazonian Black-Tyrant / Knipolegus poecilocercus

Amazonian Black-Tyrant

Here the details of the Amazonian Black-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Knipolegus poecilocercus
Protonym:  Empidochanes poecilocercus Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.116,181
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ambtyr1
Type Locality:  Rio Amajau, Rio Negro, Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1868
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos  insect; λεγω legō  to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors.  Muscicapa Lin. 2   ...   2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis). 
Var. Cnipolegus.   
Synon. AdaBlechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.

poecilocerca / poecilocercus
Gr. ποικιλος poikilos pied, spotted, variegated; κερκος kerkos tail.