Melaenornis Ardesiacus Bird

English Name:  Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Melaenornis ardesiacus
Protonym:  Meloenornis ardesiaca Bull.Mus.Nat.Hist.Nat.Paris(2), 8 p.329
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code:  yebfly2
Type Locality:  Mbwahi, Kivu, Belgian Congo; altitude about 2,000 meters.
Author:  Berlioz
Publish Year:  1936
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma ^a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   ^a Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. Melaehornis, Meloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

ardesiaca / ardesiacea / ardesiacus
Mod. L. ardesiacus  slate-coloured, slaty  < French ardoisé  slate-grey.