Semioptera Wallacii Bird

English Name:  Standardwing Bird-of-Paradise
Latin Name:  Semioptera wallacii
Protonym:  Semioptera wallacei Athenaeum no.1639 p.425
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paradisaeidae / Semioptera
Taxonomy Code:  walsta2
Type Locality:  Bat Jan.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SEMIOPTERA
(Paradisaeidae; Ϯ Wallace's Standardwing S. wallacii) Gr. σημεια sēmeia or σημειον sēmeion  military standard, flag  < σημα sēma,  σηματος sēmatos  sign; πτερα ptera  wings  < πτερον pteron  wing; "This Paradise-Bird proves, as Mr. Wallace remarks in his lettre, to be a new form, differing from all its congeners, approaching most nearly to the King Bird of Paradise; but in place of the lengthened caudal appendages, it has, springing from the lesser coverts of each wing, two long shafts, both of which are webbed on each side at the apex. It is the possession of these peculiar winged standards that induces me to propose for it the subgeneric appellation Semioptera.  I have endeavoured to transform the rough sketch into the probable appearance of the living bird; and I further add the provisional specific name of Paradisea wallacii, which appellation I think is justly due to Mr. Wallace for the indefatigable energy he has hitherto shown in the advancement of ornithological and entomogical knowledge, by visiting localities rarely if ever travelled by naturalists." (G. Gray 1859); "Semioptera Gray, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 130. Type, by monotypy, Paradisea wallacii Gray = Semioptera wallacei Gould." (Mayr in Peters 1962, XV, 188). Cracraft 1992, concluded that both subspecies of this bird were diagnosably distinct and recognised them as phylogenetic species. 
Var. Semeioptera.

wallaceana / wallaceanus / wallacei / wallaciana / wallacii
● Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) British zoologist, joint originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection, father of zoogeography, collector in Brazil and the East Indies (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, Aegotheles, Ceyx, syn. Ceyx azureus lessonii, subsp. Chalcophaps stephani, syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus, syn. Dicrurus paradiseus formosus, syn. Eos squamata, Eulipoa, Habroptila, Heleia, subsp. Hemiprocne longipennis, syn. Lonchura quinticolor, subsp. Mulleripicus fulvus, syn. Paradisaea apoda, subsp. Patagioenas plumbea, subsp. Picumnus aurifrons, subsp. Pipromorpha oleaginea, syn. Prioniturus platurus, subsp. Procnias albus, Ptilinopus, subsp. Schiffornis turdina, Semioptera, Sipodotus, subsp. Treron griseicauda).
● Maj. Robert Browne Wallace (1918-2002) US Army, businessman, philanthropist, environmentalist (Capito).

SUBSPECIES

Standardwing Bird-of-Paradise (halmaherae)
Latin Name: Semioptera wallacii halmaherae
halmaheira / halmahera / halmaherae
Halmahera, Moluccas.

Standardwing Bird-of-Paradise (wallacii)
Latin Name: Semioptera wallacii wallacii
wallaceana / wallaceanus / wallacei / wallaciana / wallacii
● Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) British zoologist, joint originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection, father of zoogeography, collector in Brazil and the East Indies (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, Aegotheles, Ceyx, syn. Ceyx azureus lessonii, subsp. Chalcophaps stephani, syn. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, syn. Dicrurus leucophaeus, syn. Dicrurus paradiseus formosus, syn. Eos squamata, Eulipoa, Habroptila, Heleia, subsp. Hemiprocne longipennis, syn. Lonchura quinticolor, subsp. Mulleripicus fulvus, syn. Paradisaea apoda, subsp. Patagioenas plumbea, subsp. Picumnus aurifrons, subsp. Pipromorpha oleaginea, syn. Prioniturus platurus, subsp. Procnias albus, Ptilinopus, subsp. Schiffornis turdina, Semioptera, Sipodotus, subsp. Treron griseicauda).
● Maj. Robert Browne Wallace (1918-2002) US Army, businessman, philanthropist, environmentalist (Capito).