Black-and-yellow Tanager

SCI Name:  Chrysothlypis chrysomelas
Protonym:  Tachyphonus chrysomelas Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.440 pl.32
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Chrysothlypis
Taxonomy Code:  baytan2
Type Locality:  Cordillera del Chucu, Veraguas, Panama.
Author:  Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year:  1869
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOTHLYPIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Black-and-yellow Tanager C. chrysomelas) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; θλυπις thlupis  unknown bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thlypis signifies either a parulid warbler or, as in this case, a thin-billed tanager; "Genus Chrysothlypis, gen. nov. Berl.   Chrysothlypis gen. nov. Tanagridarum generi Hemithraupis dicto affinis, differt rostro graciliore magis producto, necnon coloribus maris insolitus (capite, uropygio corporeque inferiore aureo-flavis, dorso alis caudaque velutino-nigris).   Typus: Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater & Salvin." (von Berlepsch 1912); "Chrysothlypis Berlepsch, Verh. 5th Intern. Orn. Kongr. Berlin, p. 1080, Feb., 1912—type, by orig. desig., Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater and Salvin." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 385).
Synon. Erythrothlypis.

chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

SUBSPECIES

Black-and-yellow Tanager (titanota)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas titanota
titanota
Gr. τιτανωτος titanōtos  whitened  < τιτανος titanos  chalk, gypsum.
● "females with throat and belly suffused with white, leaving only a band across the breast yellowish, whereas females of chrysomelas are entirely bright yellow below" (Olson 1981) (subsp. Chrysothlypis chrysomelas).

Black-and-yellow Tanager (chrysomelas)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas chrysomelas
chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

Black-and-yellow Tanager (ocularis)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas ocularis
ocularis
L. ocularis  of the eyes, ocular  < oculus  eye.
● “The widespread error of transcribing this name as ocularius has been pointed out by Macdonald and Grant, 1953, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 22, pp. 197-203” (Moreau in Peters XV 1962) (Ploceus).