Stilpnia Meyerdeschauenseei Bird

Stilpnia Meyerdeschauenseei Bird

Stilpnia Meyerdeschauenseei Bird

English Name:  Green-capped Tanager
Latin Name:  Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei
Protonym:  Tangara meyerdeschauenseei WilsonBull. 97 p.413-420
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Stilpnia
Taxonomy Code:  grctan1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Schulenberg & Binford
Publish Year:  1985
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

Stilpnia
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Black-headed Tanager T. cyanoptera) Gr. στιλπνος stilpnos  glistening, glittering  < στιλπνοω stilpnoō  to polish; "32. Stilpnia, new genus (Fig. 5).   Type species. Aglaia cyanoptera Swainson, 1834 (currently recognized as Tangara cyanoptera).  ...  Etymology. The name, feminine in gender, is derived from the Greek στιλπνη, the feminine form of the adjective meaning "glittering" or "glistening," alluding to the glossiness of the plumage of these colorful tanagers.  Comments. Euschemon Sclater, 1851 (type species Tanagra flava Gmelin, 1789, currently Tangara cayana flava), is preoccupied by Euschemon Doubleday, 1846, the name of an Australian butterfly, and so not available" (Burns et al. 2016) (OD per Richard Klim).

meyerdeschauenseei
Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901-1984) Swiss/US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Rallus limicolaTangara).