Grallaria Haplonota Bird

English Name:  Plain-backed Antpitta
Latin Name:  Grallaria haplonota
Protonym:  Grallaria haplonota Ibis p.442
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Grallariidae / Grallaria
Taxonomy Code:  plbant1
Type Locality:  Venezuela, = vicinity of Caracas.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GRALLARIA
(Grallariidae; Ϯ Variegated Antpitta G. varia) Mod. L. grallarius  stilt-walker  < L. grallae  stilts  < obsolete gradula  little step  < dim. gradus  step; "GRALLARIE, Grallaria.  Turdus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit, un peu fort, épais, convexe en dessus, à dos caréné, comprimé par les côtés; mandibule supérieure échancrée et courbée à la pointe. — Jambes demi-nues. — Queue courte.   Esp. Roi des Fourmilliers, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Grallaria Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, Roi des Fourmilliers, Buffon = Formicarius varius Boddaert." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 262).
Synon. Agaura, Chamaebates, Colobathris, Hypsibemon, Myiotrichas, Myioturdus, Oropezus.

grallaria
Mod. L. grallarius  stilt-walker  < L. grallae  stilts  < obsolete gradula  little step  < dim. gradus  step.

haplonota
Gr. ἁπλοος haploos plain; -νωτος -nōtos -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

SUBSPECIES

Plain-backed Antpitta (haplonota)
Latin Name: Grallaria haplonota haplonota
haplonota
Gr. ἁπλοος haploos plain; -νωτος -nōtos -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

Plain-backed Antpitta (pariae)
Latin Name: Grallaria haplonota pariae
pariae
Peninsula de Paria, Sucre, Venezuela.

Plain-backed Antpitta (parambae)
Latin Name: Grallaria haplonota parambae
parambae / parambana / parambanus
Paramba, Imbabura/Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
● Hacienda Paramba, Imbabura, Ecuador (subsp. Myiopagis caniceps).

Plain-backed Antpitta (chaplinae)
Latin Name: Grallaria haplonota chaplinae
chaplinae
Louise Davis Chaplin née Catherwood (1906-1983) US socialite, philanthropist, wife of ichthyologist Charles Clifford Chaplin (subsp. Grallaria haplonota).