Bennett’s Woodpecker
Bennett's Woodpecker
Here the details of the Bennett's Woodpecker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chrysoptilus Bennettii Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.53
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code: benwoo1
Type Locality: 'Country about and beyond Kurrichaine'' = western Transvaal.
Author: Smith, A
Publish Year: 1836
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras hunter < θηραω thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841). Dendromus a, Swains. Picus, Swains. C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray. ... a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70. New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.
bennetti / bennettii
● Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) British surgeon, zoologist, botanist, conservationist, settled in Australia 1836 (Aegotheles, Casuarius, syn. Melanorectes nigrescens).
● Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) British zoologist, Vice-Secretary/Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1826-1836 (syn. Calocitta colliei, Campethera, syn. Orthotomus sutorius guzuratus).
● Kenric Harold Bennett (1835-1891) Australian naturalist, collector (Corvus).
● Lt. Dr Logan Johnson Bennett (1907-1957) US Navy, conservationist, collector in Melanesia 1944, Chief of US Fish & Wildlife Service 1948-1953 (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).
SUBSPECIES
Bennett's Woodpecker (Bennett's)
SCI Name: Campethera bennettii bennettii
bennetti / bennettii
● Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) British surgeon, zoologist, botanist, conservationist, settled in Australia 1836 (Aegotheles, Casuarius, syn. Melanorectes nigrescens).
● Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) British zoologist, Vice-Secretary/Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1826-1836 (syn. Calocitta colliei, Campethera, syn. Orthotomus sutorius guzuratus).
● Kenric Harold Bennett (1835-1891) Australian naturalist, collector (Corvus).
● Lt. Dr Logan Johnson Bennett (1907-1957) US Navy, conservationist, collector in Melanesia 1944, Chief of US Fish & Wildlife Service 1948-1953 (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).
Bennett's Woodpecker (Light-spotted)
SCI Name: Campethera bennettii capricorni
capricornensis / capricorni / capricornis
Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern Tropic, a circle of latitude currently at 23° 26' S (drifting north by nearly half a second of latitude per year).
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)