Cecropis Semirufa Bird

English Name:  Rufous-chested Swallow
Latin Name:  Cecropis semirufa
Protonym:  Hirundo semirufa Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.107
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Cecropis
Taxonomy Code:  rucswa2
Type Locality:  'Caffraria superiore'' ; type from Magliesberg, Transvaal.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CECROPIS
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Greater Striped Swallow C. cucullata) Gr. Κεκροπις Kekropis  Athenian woman. Seemingly despite its generic appellation the Greater Striped Swallow breeds in southern Africa, but the epithet reflects the use of Attic place names and proper names for swallows (see Atticora); "I. Fam. Hirundinidae Vigors.  Hirundo Lin.  ...   Cecropis. Hir. capensis Gm.; rustica Gm. u.s.w." (Boie 1826); "Cecropis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, Heft 10, col. 971. Type, by subsequent designation, Hirundo capensis Gmelin = Hirundo cucullata Boddaert (Salvadori, 1881, Orn. Pap. Mol., pt. 2, p. 1)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 113).    
Var. Acropis, Cercropis.   
Synon. Baruwaia, Herophilus, Lillia, Phoenichelidon.

semirufa / semirufus
L. semi-  half-  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; rufus  rufous.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-chested Swallow (gordoni)
Latin Name: Cecropis semirufa gordoni
gordoni
● Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Alexander Gordon (1821-1899) British Army, surgeon in India, West Africa, China and France (subsp. Cecropis semirufa).
● Gordon Point, Melville I., Northern Territory, Australia (subsp. Philemon buceroides).
● J. G. M. Gordon (1875-1938) Scottish lepidopterist, sponsor (subsp. Turdus eremita).

Rufous-chested Swallow (semirufa)
Latin Name: Cecropis semirufa semirufa
semirufa / semirufus
L. semi-  half-  < semis, semissis  half  < as, assis  whole; rufus  rufous.