Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher

SCI Name:  Phainoptila melanoxantha
Protonym:  Phainoptila melanoxantha Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.367
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Ptiliogonatidae / Phainoptila
Taxonomy Code:  bayfly1
Type Locality:  Costa Rica = San Francisco, fide Hellmayr, 1935.
Author:  Salvin
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PHAINOPTILA
(Ptiliogonatidae; Ϯ Black-and-yellow Phainoptila P. melanoxantha) Gr. φαεινος phaeinos  brilliant  < φαινω phainō  to shine; πτιλον ptilon plumage; "PHAINOPTILA, gen. nov. ⁴  Rostrum debile, angustum, glabrum, valde aduncatum, maxillæ apice dentato: nares apertæ: setæ rictales  breves.  Alæ rotundatæ: remex primus longus, dimidium secundi æquans.   2.< 3.< 4=5., 4. et 5. longissimi.  Acrotarsi breves, itegri, sicut in gen. Turdus.  Ptilosis mollis sicut in gen. Ampelidarum.  Typus et species unica PHAINOPTILA MELANOXANTHA, sp. n.  Nitente nigra, pectore et abdominis lateribus cum crisso olivaceis, ventre medio ardesiaco: hypochondriis et dorso postico lætissime flavis: rostro et pedibus nigerrimis.   ...  The wing-formula is quite that of Ptilogonys, to which genus the glossy plumage and some of the characteristics of the coloration suggest an affinity; and these characters have induced me to place Phainoptila for the present near Ptilogonys in the family Ampelidæ.   ...   ⁴ φαεινος, splendens, et πτιλον, pluma." (Salvin 1877).

melanoxantha / melanoxanthos / melanoxanthum / melanoxanthus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ξανθος xanthos  yellow.

SUBSPECIES

Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher (parkeri)
SCI Name: Phainoptila melanoxantha parkeri
parkeri
● Shane Alwyne Parker (1943-1992) English ornithologist, emigrated to Australia 1967, Curator of Birds at South Australian Mus. 1976-1991, collector, marine zoologist (subsp. Acanthagenys rufogularis, subsp. Barnardius zonarius, subsp. Hylacola pyrrhopygia).
● Theodore 'Ted' Albert Parker III (1953-1993) US field ornithologist with an unparalleled knowledge of Neotropical birds, tragically killed in an air-crash (Cercomacroides, Glaucidium, Herpsilochmus, subsp. Metallura theresiae, subsp. Phainoptila melanoxantha, Phylloscartes, Scytalopus, subsp. Thamnophilus stictocephalus).
● Prof. Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) English biologist, university administrator, resident in New Zealand 1880-1897 (‡syn. Euryapteryx geranoides, ‡syn. Porphyrio mantelli).

Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher (melanoxantha)
SCI Name: Phainoptila melanoxantha melanoxantha
melanoxantha / melanoxanthos / melanoxanthum / melanoxanthus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ξανθος xanthos  yellow.