Rufous-banded Honeyeater

Rufous-banded Honeyeater / Conopophila albogularis

Rufous-banded Honeyeater

Here the details of the Rufous-banded Honeyeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Conopophila albogularis
Protonym:  Entomophila ? albogularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.137
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rubhon2
Type Locality:  Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia. Emended to albigularis.
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Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CONOPOPHILA
(Meliphagidae; Rufous-banded Honeyeater C. albogularis) Gr. κωνωψ kōnōps, κωνωπος kōnōpos  gnat; φιλος philos  lover; "The stomach was very small, but tolerably muscular, and its food consisted of insects generally" (Gilbert in Gould 1865); "LV. Conopophila RCHB. Nat. System der Vögel sppl. — An dieser Stelle die Wiederholung von Stomiopera aus der Gruppe der Gattung Ptilotis, zugleich eine Vorbildung von Dicaeum. — GOULD vermuthete bereits, daß diese beiden Arten nicht zu Entomophila gehörten, welche deshalb in ihrer Gattung fast allein steht.    *273. C. albigularis (Entom. albogularis GOULD) RCHB. t. CCCCLXXXIX. 3450.  ...  Sein sehr kleiner Magen ist ziemlich muskulös und sein Fraß besteht meist aus Insecten.   ...   274. C. rufigularis (Entomophila rufogularis GOULD) RCHB. t. CCCCLXXXIX. 3448—49." (Reichenbach 1852); "Conopophila Reichenbach, 1852, Handb. spec. Orn., Icon. Synops. Avium, abth. 2, continuatio no. IX (Meropinae), p. 119.  Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 24), Entomophila? albogularis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 433).
Synon. Lacustroica.

albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-banded Honeyeater (mimikae)
SCI Name: Conopophila albogularis mimikae
mimika / mimikae
Mimika River, southern New Guinea.

Rufous-banded Honeyeater (albogularis)
SCI Name: Conopophila albogularis albogularis
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus  white; Mod. L. gularis  throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.