Abyssinian Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe lugubris
Protonym:  Saxicola lugubris NeueWirbelth.Vog. p.77 pl.28 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  mouwhe4
Type Locality:  Simen, Abyssinia.
Author:  Rüppell
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe.  Motacilla, Linn.  Silvia et Turdus, Lath.  Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816  F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.

oenanthe
L. oenanthe  wheatear  < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season  < οινη oinē  vine; ανθος anthos  bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ...  Oenanthe.  17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217.  Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55.  β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219.  Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54.  Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis.  Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).

lugubris
L. lugubris  mournful, plaintive  < lugere  to mourn.
● ex “Merle brun du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 563, fig. 1 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Abyssinian Wheatear (vauriei)
SCI Name: Oenanthe lugubris vauriei
vauriei
Dr Charles Vaurie (1906-1975) US ornithologist, systematist (syn. Calandrella raytal, subsp. Oenanthe lugens, subsp. Parus major).

Abyssinian Wheatear (lugubris)
SCI Name: Oenanthe lugubris lugubris
lugubris
L. lugubris  mournful, plaintive  < lugere  to mourn.
● ex “Merle brun du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 563, fig. 1 (unident.).

Abyssinian Wheatear (schalowi)
SCI Name: Oenanthe lugubris schalowi
schalowi / schalowiana
Hermann Schalow (1852-1925) German banker, ornithologist (syn. Ifrita kowaldi, syn. Lanius excubitoroides boehmi, syn. Lanius schach nasutus, subsp. Oenanthe lugens, subsp. Rhinopomastus cyanomelas, Tauraco, subsp. Treron calvus).