Terpsiphone Batesi Bird

English Name:  Bates's Paradise-Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Terpsiphone batesi
Protonym:  Terpsiphone batesi Am.Mus.Novit. no.7 p.6
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Terpsiphone
Taxonomy Code:  batpaf1
Type Locality:  Medje, northern Ituri district, Belgian Congo.
Author:  Chapin
Publish Year:  1921
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TERPSIPHONE
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Indian Paradise-flycatcher T. paradisi) Gr. τερψι terpsi  delighting in  < τερπω terpō  to delight; φονος phonos  murder (cf. φωνη phōnē  voice); "Muscipeta, Cuv. — Terpsiphöne, f.   Muscipeta zu ähnlich und ganz gleich bedeutend mit Muscicapa. — Terpsiphŏne (necando gaudens) — nicht Terpsiphōne (voce laeta), von ihrem schnellen, muntern Jagem nach Insekten und ihrem fröhlichen Wesen." (Gloger 1827); "Terpsiphone Gloger, 1827, in Froriep, Notizen, 16, col. 278. New name for Muscipeta Cuvier, 1817, preoccupied by Muscipeta Koch, 1816 = Acrocephalus Naumann, 1811." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 478-479).
Var. Terpsichore (Gr. myth. Terpsichore, the Muse of the dance; τερψιχορος terpsikhoros  delighting in the dance).
Synon. Callaeops, Monedula, Muscipeta, Neoxeocephus, Tchitrea, Xeocephus.

batesi / batesiana
● George Latimer Bates (1863-1940) US planter, ornithologist, collector in Gabon, French Congo and the Cameroons 1895-1928 (syn. Accipiter erythropus, syn. Alcedo leucogaster, Apus, subsp. Aviceda cuculoides, syn. Baeopogon indicator, syn. Batis minor erlangeri, syn. Campethera punctuligera, syn. Canirallus oculeus, Caprimulgus, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, syn. Dendropicos obsoletus, subsp. Dryotriorchis spectabilis, syn. Euplectes axillaris bocagei, subsp. Geokichla princei, syn. Hieraaetus ayresii, subsp. Iduna natalensis, subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri, syn. Lanius meridionalis elegans, syn. Merops muelleri, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Muscicapa sethsmithi, subsp. Oreocossypha isabellae, Ploceus, syn. Sarothrura pulchra, syn. Spizaetus africanus, syn. Sylvietta denti, Terpsiphone, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).
● Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist, entomologist who developed the theory of Batesian mimicry, explorer and collector in Amazonia 1848-1859 (subsp. Melidectes ochromelas).

SUBSPECIES

Bates's Paradise-Flycatcher (batesi)
Latin Name: Terpsiphone batesi batesi
batesi / batesiana
● George Latimer Bates (1863-1940) US planter, ornithologist, collector in Gabon, French Congo and the Cameroons 1895-1928 (syn. Accipiter erythropus, syn. Alcedo leucogaster, Apus, subsp. Aviceda cuculoides, syn. Baeopogon indicator, syn. Batis minor erlangeri, syn. Campethera punctuligera, syn. Canirallus oculeus, Caprimulgus, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, Cinnyris, syn. Dendropicos obsoletus, subsp. Dryotriorchis spectabilis, syn. Euplectes axillaris bocagei, subsp. Geokichla princei, syn. Hieraaetus ayresii, subsp. Iduna natalensis, subsp. Illadopsis cleaveri, syn. Lanius meridionalis elegans, syn. Merops muelleri, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Muscicapa sethsmithi, subsp. Oreocossypha isabellae, Ploceus, syn. Sarothrura pulchra, syn. Spizaetus africanus, syn. Sylvietta denti, Terpsiphone, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).
● Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist, entomologist who developed the theory of Batesian mimicry, explorer and collector in Amazonia 1848-1859 (subsp. Melidectes ochromelas).

Bates's Paradise-Flycatcher (bannermani)
Latin Name: Terpsiphone batesi bannermani
bannermani
Dr David Armitage Bannerman (1886-1979) Scottish ornithologist, collector (subsp. Anthus similis, subsp. Apus affinis, syn. Buccanodon duchaillui, subsp. Buteo buteo, subsp. Cecropis abyssinica, syn. Criniger ndussumensis, syn. Cursorius cursor, Cyanomitra, syn. Cyornis rubeculoides klossi, syn. Plocepasser superciliosus, Ploceus, Puffinus, syn. Scopus umbretta, subsp. Terpsiphone batesi, Tauraco).