Rosy Bee-eater

Rosy Bee-eater / Merops malimbicus

Rosy Bee-eater

Here the details of the Rosy Bee-eater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Merops malimbicus
Protonym:  Merops malimbicus Nat.Misc. 17 textpl.701
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  robeat1
Type Locality:  Malimbe, Portuguese Congo.
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Publish Year:  1806
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.

malimbica / malimbicus
Malimba or Malimbe, Portuguese Congo (= Cabinda Enclave, Angola).
● ex “Martin-pêcheur de Malimbe” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 (Halcyon).