Melanerpes Cruentatus Bird

English Name:  Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Melanerpes cruentatus
Protonym:  Picus cruentatus TablePlanchesEnlum. p.43
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Melanerpes
Taxonomy Code:  yetwoo2
Type Locality:  Cayenne, ex Daubenton, pi. 694, f. 2.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MELANERPES
(Picidae; Ϯ Red-headed Woodpecker M. erythrocephalus) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ἑρπης herpēs  creeper  < ἑρπω herpō  to crawl; "1. MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS. (Sw.)  Red-headed Woodpecker.   GENUS, Melanerpes*, SWAINS.   Sub-genus, (Typical form) SWAINS.   ...   This Woodpecker, so well known in the United States for the havoc it commits in the orchards, ranges in summer from the northern shores of Lake Huron to the Gulf of Mexico.   ...   *Th. μελας, niger, et ερπο, repo" (Swainson 1832); "Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 2, 1831 (1832), p. 316. Type, by monotypy, Picus erythrocephalus Linné." (Peters 1948, VI, 157).
Var. Melanoherpes, Malanerpes.
Synon. Asyndesmus, Balanosphyra, Cactocraugus, Centurus, Chryserpes, Colombpicus, Leuconerpes, Leucopicus, Linneopicus, Melampicos, Meropicus, Phymatoblepharus, Trichopicus, Trichopipo, Tripsurus, Zebrapicus.

cruentata / cruentatum / cruentatus
L. cruentatus  blood-stained, spotted with blood  < cruentare  to make bloody  < cruor, cruoris  blood, gore.
● "59. CERTHIA.  ...  cruentata.  4. C. nigro-cærulescens, subtus alba, vertice, cervice, dorso uropygioque rubris.  Certhia minor, ex albo nigro & rubro varia. Edw. av. 81. t. 81.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dicaeum).
● ex “Petit pic noir de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 694, fig. 2 (Melanerpes).