Hemitriccus Orbitatus Bird

Hemitriccus Orbitatus Bird

Hemitriccus Orbitatus Bird

English Name:  Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant
Latin Name:  Hemitriccus orbitatus
Protonym:  E[uscarthmus] orbitatus Beitr.Naturgesch.Brasil. 3 p.958
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Hemitriccus
Taxonomy Code:  erttyr1
Type Locality:  in high Brazilian forest; restricted to Rio Doce, Espirito Santo by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 230.
Author:  zu Wied
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

HEMITRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant H. diops) Gr. ἡμι- hēmi-  small  < ἡμισυς hēmisus  half; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "PHYLLOSCARTES   ...   In ihre Nähe würden zu stellen sein die Genera:  Hemitriccus Nob. (von ἡμι, halb und τρικκος = Todus).  (Musciphaga (!) Less. 1831).  Von Euscarthmus durch längere Flügel, stärken und breitern Schwanz und grössere Entwickelung der Bartborsten verschieden:   H. diops. — Muscicapa diops "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 144.1. — Todirostrum diops Lafr. R. Z. 1846. p. 365. 13. — Euscarthmus vilis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 490. — Muscicapa vilis Licht. in Mus. Berol. (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Hemitriccus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 52.  New name for Musciphaga Lesson, 1837, considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Hemitriscus.   
Synon. Andinotriccus, Bornscheinia, CampinaCeratotriccus, Euscarthmornis, Idioptilon, Inambariornis, Microcochlearius, Musciphaga, Snethlagea, Todirhamphus.

orbitatum / orbitatus
Med. L. orbitatus eye (strictly the eye cavity) < L. orbis ring, eye.