Arabian Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe lugentoides
Protonym:  Saxicola lugentoides Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 5 p.371
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  mouwhe5
Type Locality:  Sennaar, northeast Africa {_errore = Yemen, vide Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 445].
Author:  Seebohm
Publish Year:  1881
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).

lugentoides
Specific name Saxicola lugens Lichtenstein, 1823; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "6. Saxicola lugens.   ...   7. Saxicola lugentoides.  This is an excellent species, which has been most unaccountably and undeservedly overlooked by the French ornithologists, and by Messrs. Blanford and Dresser, when they examined the most interesting series of Chats in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes.  It is nearly allied to the preceding, but differs from it" (Seebohn 1881) (subsp. Oenanthe lugens).

SUBSPECIES

Arabian Wheatear (lugentoides)
SCI Name: Oenanthe lugentoides lugentoides
lugentoides
Specific name Saxicola lugens Lichtenstein, 1823; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "6. Saxicola lugens.   ...   7. Saxicola lugentoides.  This is an excellent species, which has been most unaccountably and undeservedly overlooked by the French ornithologists, and by Messrs. Blanford and Dresser, when they examined the most interesting series of Chats in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes.  It is nearly allied to the preceding, but differs from it" (Seebohn 1881) (subsp. Oenanthe lugens).

Arabian Wheatear (boscaweni)
SCI Name: Oenanthe lugentoides boscaweni
boscaweni
Lt.-Col. the Hon. Mildmay Thomas Boscawen (1892-1958) British Army, explorer in Hadhramaut, Yemen and Socotra 1929-1935, sisal planter in Tanganyika and Kenya (subsp. Oenanthe lugens).