Neopelma Pallescens Bird

English Name:  Pale-bellied Tyrant-Manakin
Latin Name:  Neopelma pallescens
Protonym:  Tyrannula pallescens Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 5 p.57
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pipridae / Neopelma
Taxonomy Code:  pbtman1
Type Locality:  Bahia, Brazil.
Author:  Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

NEOPELMA
(Pipridae; Ϯ Wied's Tyrant Manakin N. aurifrons) Gr. νεος neos  new, different; πελμα pelma, πελματος pelmatos  sole of the foot; “Muscicapa aurifrons of P. Max. (M. luteocephala, Lafr.) — a bird referred by Cabanis to Elainea and by Burmeister to Euscarthmus; but which, I think, from the structure of the feet ought rather to be placed near to, if not in the genus Heteropelma   ...   β. Neopelma, nob.   Pedibus debilibus, rostro breviore, latiore, apice non uncinato.    6. HETEROPELMA AURIFRONS. — Musc. aurifrons, P. Max. Beitr. iii. p. 829. — M. luteocephala, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1833, pl. 13. — Elainea aurifrons, Cab. in Schomb. Reise, iii. p. 701. — Euscarthmus aurifrons, Burm. Thiere Bras. ii. p. 489, ex Brasil. et Guiana.” (P. Sclater 1860); "Neopelma Sclater, 1860, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 28, p. 467. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa aurifrons Wied." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 255).
Synon. Paroides.

pallescens
L. pallescens, pallescentis  pale-coloured, yellowish  < pallescere  to turn pale  <  pallere  to be pale.