Northern Carmine Bee-eater

Northern Carmine Bee-eater / Merops nubicus

Northern Carmine Bee-eater

Here the details of the Northern Carmine Bee-eater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Merops nubicus
Protonym:  Merops nubicus Syst.Nat. 1 pt1 p.464
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ncbeat1
Type Locality:  Nubia.
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Publish Year:  1788
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis  bee-eater  < Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; "57. MEROPS.  Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum.  Lingua apice laciniata.  Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.

nubicus
Mod. L. Nubicus Nubian < L. Nuba Nubian.
● ex “Guêpier de Nubie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 649, “Guêpier rouge à tête bleue” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Blue-headed Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (Merops).