Black-headed Bee-eater / Merops breweri
WBN 
Black-headed Bee-eater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Meropogon Breweri Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 11 p.34
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code: bhbeat1
Type Locality: Ogobai River, Gaboon.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1859
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis bee-eater < Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; "57. MEROPS. Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum. Lingua apice laciniata. Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.
breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).
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)
