Asian Palm-Swift / Cypsiurus balasiensis
WBN 
Asian Palm-Swift
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cypselus Balasiensis Anim.Kingd.[Griffith] 7 p.60
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Cypsiurus
Taxonomy Code: aspswi1
Type Locality: India, restricted to Calcutta by Stuart Baker, antea, p. 336.
Author: Gray, JE
Publish Year: 1829
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CYPSIURUS
(Apodidae; Ϯ African Palm Swift C. parvus) Gr. κυψελος kupselos swallow; ουρα oura tail. "AMBERGRIS SWALLOW ...Grey-brown Swallow, beneath paler, with the tail greatly forked" (Stephens 1817); "105e Genre: CYPSIURUS, Less. Hab. l'Afrique. — 454. Cypsiurus ambrosiacus. Hirundo ambrosiacas, Brisson, t. 2 pl. 45 f. 4; L.; Gm.; cypselus ambrosiacus, Temm. pl. 460 f. 2; H. ambrosiaca, Vieill., ency. p. 520; Lesson, voy. de Bélang., p. 244; Séba, 1, 102; cypselus parvus, Lichst., cat. no 603; hab.: l'Egypte, la Nubie, le Sénégal, le Cap de Bonne-Espérance." (Lesson 1843); "Cypsiurus Lesson, Écho du Monde Savant, Ann. 10, 2me sem., 1843, p. 134. Type, by monotypy, Cypselus ambrosiacus Temminck = Cypselus parvus Lichtenstein." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 255).
Var. Cypselurus.
Synon. Tachynautes.
balasiensis
Bengali name Bāthāsi for the Asian Palm Swift (cf. Nepali name Bâtāsi for the Little Swift Apus affinis) (cf. Horsfield & Moore 1854: "CYPSELUS BATASSIENSIS,* J. E. Gray [1829] ... Hirundo (Apus) batassia Hamilton MS ... Batassian Swift Lath. ... BATASSIA, Beng. ...*Balassiensis, Auct. corrigend.") (Cypsiurus).
SUBSPECIES
Asian Palm-Swift (balasiensis)
SCI Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis balasiensis
balasiensis
Bengali name Bāthāsi for the Asian Palm Swift (cf. Nepali name Bâtāsi for the Little Swift Apus affinis) (cf. Horsfield & Moore 1854: "CYPSELUS BATASSIENSIS,* J. E. Gray [1829] ... Hirundo (Apus) batassia Hamilton MS ... Batassian Swift Lath. ... BATASSIA, Beng. ...*Balassiensis, Auct. corrigend.") (Cypsiurus).
Asian Palm-Swift (infumatus)
SCI Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis infumatus
infumata / infumatus
L. infumatus smoked < infumare to dry in smoke.
Asian Palm-Swift (bartelsorum)
SCI Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis bartelsorum
bartelsorum
Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (1871-1936) and his sons Dr Max Bartels, Jr. (1902-1943), Ernst Bartels (b. 1904), and Hans Bartels (1906-1997) Dutch plantation managers, naturalists and collectors in Java (subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
Asian Palm-Swift (pallidior)
SCI Name: Cypsiurus balasiensis pallidior
pallidior / pallidiora
L. pallidior, pallidioris paler < comp. pallidus pale < pallere to be pale.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
