Cisticola Aridulus Bird

English Name:  Desert Cisticola
Latin Name:  Cisticola aridulus
Protonym:  Cisticola aridula Bull.Br.Orn.Club 11 p.13
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  descis1
Type Locality:  about 60 miles south of Khartoum, White Nile = Gerazi, fide Lynes, 1930, Ibis, Cisticola Suppl., p. 619.
Author:  Witherby
Publish Year:  1900
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

aridula / aridulus
L. aridula somewhat dry < dim. aridus arid, dry < arere to be dry.

SUBSPECIES

Desert Cisticola (aridulus)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus aridulus
aridula / aridulus
L. aridula somewhat dry < dim. aridus arid, dry < arere to be dry.

Desert Cisticola (lavendulae)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus lavendulae
lavendulae
Lavender Mary Medlicott née Pease (1889-1989) daughter of English big-game hunter Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet Pease of Hutton Lowcross and Pinchinthorpe (subsp. Cisticola aridulus).

Desert Cisticola (tanganyika)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus tanganyika
tanganicae / tanganjicae / tanganyicae / tanganyika / tanganyikae
Lake Tanganyika, east Africa.

Desert Cisticola (lobito)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus lobito
lobito
Lobito Bay, Benguela, Angola.

Desert Cisticola (traylori)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus traylori
traylori
Maj. Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. (1915-2008) US Army, ornithologist (syn. Anthreptes seimundi minor, subsp. Anthus caffer, subsp. Cisticola aridulus, Crypturellus, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, Tolmomyias).

Desert Cisticola (eremicus)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus eremicus
eremicus
Gr. ερημικος erēmikos  living in a desert  < ερημια erēmia  desert.

Desert Cisticola (perplexus)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus perplexus
perplexa / perplexus
L. perplexus  confused, obscure, ambiguous  < plexus  plaited, interwoven.

Desert Cisticola (kalahari)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus kalahari
kalahari / kalahariae / kalaharica / kalaharicus
Kalahari Desert, Namibia/Botswana.

Desert Cisticola (caliginus)
Latin Name: Cisticola aridulus caliginus
caliginus
Med. L. caliginus  obscure, dark, dim  < L. caligo, caliginis  mist, fog, gloom, darkness.