Sphecotheres Hypoleucus Bird

English Name:  Wetar Figbird
Latin Name:  Sphecotheres hypoleucus
Protonym:  Sphecotheres hypoleucus NotesLeydenMus. 20 p.129
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Oriolidae / Sphecotheres
Taxonomy Code:  wetfig1
Type Locality:  Wetter Island.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1898
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SPHECOTHERES
(Oriolidae; Ϯ Timor Figbird S. viridis) Gr. σφηξ sphēx, σφηκος sphēkos  wasp; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; the strong bill inclined earlier authors to treat the figbirds as allied to the rapacious shrikes; "132. SPHÉCOTHÈRE, Sphecotheres.  Bec épais, droit et glabre à la base, robuste, convexe en dessus, fléchi vers la pointe de la mandibule supérieure. — Orbites nues. — Les prem. et deux. remiges les plus longues.   Esp. nouv. (H)   ...   (H) SPÉCOTHÈRE VERT, Sphecotera viridis.   ...   Sphecotera [σφηξ, vespa, θηραω, venor]." (Vieillot 1816); "Sphecotheres Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 42. Type, by monotypy, Specotheres viridis Vieillot." (Greenway in Peters 1962, XV, 136).
Var. Sphecotera, Sphecothera, Sphecoteres, Sphecotis.
Synon. Picnoramphus.

hypoleucus
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; λευκος leukos  white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos  whitish).

Hypoleucus
(syn. Phalacrocorax Ϯ Pied Cormorant P. varius) Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; λευκος leukos  white (cf. specific name Carbo hypoleucos von Brandt, 1837 (= syn. Phalacrocorax fuscescens)); "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  b. *Hypoleucus Rchb.  varius (Pelic. — L. Gm.) Rchb.  Ic. Av. t. 63. ic. 474.  Rel. spec. ib. 872—73. 875—876. t. 60. ic. 2309—10." (Reichenbach 1852).  Var. Hypoleucos.