Chloropicus Stierlingi Bird

Stierling\'s Woodpecker / Chloropicus stierlingi

Chloropicus Stierlingi Bird

English Name:  Stierling's Woodpecker
Latin Name:  Chloropicus stierlingi
Protonym:  Dendropicos stierlingi Orn.Monatsb. 9 p.166
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus
Taxonomy Code:  stiwoo1
Type Locality:  Songea, Tanganyika Territory.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1901
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

Chloropicus
(Picidae; syn. Dendropicos † Fire-bellied Woodpecker D. pyrrhogaster) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; Late Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker  < L. picus  woodpecker; "1. P. (Chloropicus) PYRRHOGASTER.   ...   2.       P. (Brachypternopicus) RUBROPYGIALIS.  ...  3. P. (Chloropicus) KIRKII.   ...   4. P. (Chloropicus) RUFOVIRIDIS.   ...   5. P. (Chloropicus) XANTHODERUS." (Malherbe 1845); "Chloropicus Malherbe, 1845, Revue Zoologique, VIII, p. 399.  For the benefit of The Key, type here fixed by subsequent designation, Picus (Chloropicus) pyrrhogaster Malherbe, 1845." (JAJ 2021).   
Var. Chloropicos.

stierlingi
Dr J. Stierling (fl. 1901) German Army, senior staff physician in German East Africa 1887-1901, naturalist, collector (Mark Brown in litt.) (Calamonastes, syn. Cinnyris venustus falkensteini, Dendropicos, subsp. Psophocichla litsitsirupa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, subsp. Zosterops senegalensis).