Campethera Bennettii Bird

English Name:  Bennett's Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Campethera bennettii
Protonym:  Chrysoptilus Bennettii Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.53
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code:  benwoo1
Type Locality:  'Country about and beyond Kurrichaine'' = western Transvaal.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1836
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē  caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841).  Dendromus ^a, Swains.  Picus, Swains.  C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray.   ...   ^a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70.  New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.

bennetti / bennettii
● Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) British surgeon, zoologist, botanist, conservationist, settled in Australia 1836 (Aegotheles, Casuarius, syn. Melanorectes nigrescens).
● Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) British zoologist, Vice-Secretary/Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1826-1836 (syn. Calocitta colliei, Campethera, syn. Orthotomus sutorius guzuratus).
● Kenric Harold Bennett (1835-1891) Australian naturalist, collector (Corvus).
● Lt. Dr Logan Johnson Bennett (1907-1957) US Navy, conservationist, collector in Melanesia 1944, Chief of US Fish & Wildlife Service 1948-1953 (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

SUBSPECIES

Bennett's Woodpecker (Bennett's)
Latin Name: Campethera bennettii bennettii
bennetti / bennettii
● Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) British surgeon, zoologist, botanist, conservationist, settled in Australia 1836 (Aegotheles, Casuarius, syn. Melanorectes nigrescens).
● Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) British zoologist, Vice-Secretary/Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1826-1836 (syn. Calocitta colliei, Campethera, syn. Orthotomus sutorius guzuratus).
● Kenric Harold Bennett (1835-1891) Australian naturalist, collector (Corvus).
● Lt. Dr Logan Johnson Bennett (1907-1957) US Navy, conservationist, collector in Melanesia 1944, Chief of US Fish & Wildlife Service 1948-1953 (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Bennett's Woodpecker (Light-spotted)
Latin Name: Campethera bennettii capricorni
capricornensis / capricorni / capricornis
Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern Tropic, a circle of latitude currently at 23° 26' S (drifting north by nearly half a second of latitude per year).