Black-chested Tyrant

SCI Name:  Taeniotriccus andrei
Protonym:  Taeniotriccus andrei Novit.Zool. 9 p.38
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Taeniotriccus
Taxonomy Code:  blctyr2
Type Locality:  La Pricion [= La Prision] , Rio Caura, Bolivar, Venezuela.
Author:  von Berlepsch & Hartert
Publish Year:  1902
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TAENIOTRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Black-chested Tyrant T. andrei) Gr. ταινια tainia  band; τρικκος trikkos  small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher. "Taeniotriccus gen. nov.  Taeniotriccus genus novum Tyrannidarum generi Poecilotriccus dicto fere affine, sed rostri maxilla crassa, tumida et lata, vibrissis laxis crebribusque dimidium rostri attingentibus, tarsis pro usu brevioribus, pileo cristato, coloribus insolitus (alis basi fasciatis) insigne.  Generis typus est: Taeniotriccus andrei sp. nov.   ...   Unfortunately the single specimen obtained is evidently not quite adult, but there is no doubt that it belongs to a quite new form of the subfamily Platyrhynchinae, of the family Tyrannidae.  It is not very closely allied to any of the known genera of this subdivision, but it is apparently to be placed in the neighbourhood of Todirostrum, near Poecilotriccus Berl.  It nevertheless differs  from these genera  by having a much more swollen and higher upper mandible, which is also more distinctly curved.  It also differs by the large number of the vibrissae, which are rather soft, and reach to about the middle of the bill.   ...   The broad wing-bars, formed by the yellowish white bases to the remiges, are a characteristic feature not to be found in any other known bird of this group." (von Berlepsch & Hartert 1902).

andrei
Eugène André (1861-1922) French naturalist, collector in Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas 1891-1900 (cf. Édouard François André (1840-1911) French botanist, collector in Ecuador) (subsp. Chaetura vauxi, subsp. Crypturellus soui, subsp. Dysithamnus mentalis, Taeniotriccus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-chested Tyrant (andrei)
SCI Name: Taeniotriccus andrei andrei
andrei
Eugène André (1861-1922) French naturalist, collector in Venezuela, Trinidad and the Guianas 1891-1900 (cf. Édouard François André (1840-1911) French botanist, collector in Ecuador) (subsp. Chaetura vauxi, subsp. Crypturellus soui, subsp. Dysithamnus mentalis, Taeniotriccus).

Black-chested Tyrant (klagesi)
SCI Name: Taeniotriccus andrei klagesi
klagesi
Samuel Milton Klages (1875-1957) US collector in tropical America 1898-1926 (Drymophila, subsp. Lophornis verreauxii, Myrmotherula, subsp. Taeniotriccus andrei, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps, subsp. Tolmomyias poliocephalus).