Campethera Maculosa Bird

English Name:  Little Green Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Campethera maculosa
Protonym:  Picus maculosus Dict.Sci.Nat. 40 p.173
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code:  ligwoo1
Type Locality:  Senegal.
Author:  Valenciennes
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  

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.

maculosa / maculosus
L. maculosus  spotted  < maculare  to make spotted  < macula  spot.
● ex “Patch-necked Humming-bird” of Latham 1787 (syn. Chrysolampis mosquitus).
● ex “Pic de l’Encénade” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 748, fig. 1 (syn. Dendrocopos mixtus).
● ex “Yellow-rumped Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758, “Ficedula pensilvanica naevia” of Brisson 1760, “Figuier à tête cendrée” of de Buffon 7170-1783, and “Yellow-rumped Warbler” of Latham 1783 and Pennant 1785 (syn. Dendroica magnolia).
● ex “Hirondelle tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 546, fig. 1 (unident: ?Iridoprocne albiventer).
● ex “Ynambúi” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 327 (Nothura).
● ex “Paloma cobijas manchadas” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 318 (Patagioenas).
● ex “Fauvette tachetée du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 752, fig. 2 (Prinia).