Northern Wheatear
Northern Wheatear
Here the details of the Northern Wheatear named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Motacilla oenanthe Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.186
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code: norwhe
Type Locality: in Europae apricis lapidosis [= Sweden, fide Hartert, 1910, Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 679].
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe. Motacilla, Linn. Silvia et Turdus, Lath. Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue. Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816 F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.
oenanthe
L. oenanthe wheatear < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season < οινη oinē vine; ανθος anthos bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ... Oenanthe. 17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217. Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55. β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219. Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54. Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis. Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).
OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe. Motacilla, Linn. Silvia et Turdus, Lath. Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue. Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816 F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.
oenanthe
L. oenanthe wheatear < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season < οινη oinē vine; ανθος anthos bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ... Oenanthe. 17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217. Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55. β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219. Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54. Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis. Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).
SUBSPECIES
Northern Wheatear (Greenland)
SCI Name: Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa
leucorhoa / leucorhous
Gr. λευκος leukos white; ορρος orrhos rump.
● ex “Martinet à Croupion Blanc” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 244, fig. 1 (?syn. Apus caffer).
● ex “Cul-blanc du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 583, fig. 2, “Motteux du Sénégal” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Rufous Wheat-ear” of Latham 1783 (subsp. Oenanthe oenanthe).
Northern Wheatear (Eurasian)
SCI Name: Oenanthe oenanthe oenanthe/libanotica
OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe. Motacilla, Linn. Silvia et Turdus, Lath. Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue. Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816 F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.
Northern Wheatear (Black-throated)
SCI Name: Oenanthe oenanthe seebohmi
seebohmi
Henry Seebohm (1832-1895) British businessman, ornithologist, oologist, traveller (subsp. Alaudala rufescens, Amphilais, syn. Anthus gustavi, Atlapetes, subsp. Charadrius alexandrinus, syn. Chloris sinica kittlitzi, syn. Himantopus leucocephalus, Horornis, syn. Lanius borealis sibiricus, Locustella, Oenanthe, syn. Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus, subsp. Picoides kizuki, syn. Poecile palustris hensoni, subsp. Rhinoptilus cinctus, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus).
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)