Black-headed Tanager

SCI Name:  Stilpnia cyanoptera
Protonym:  A.[glaia] cyanoptera Orn.Drawings 1 pl.8
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Stilpnia
Taxonomy Code:  blhtan1
Type Locality:  no locality ; vicinity of Caracas, Venezuela, suggested by Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 174.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1834
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

Stilpnia
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Black-headed Tanager T. cyanoptera) Gr. στιλπνος stilpnos  glistening, glittering  < στιλπνοω stilpnoō  to polish; "32. Stilpnia, new genus (Fig. 5).   Type species. Aglaia cyanoptera Swainson, 1834 (currently recognized as Tangara cyanoptera).  ...  Etymology. The name, feminine in gender, is derived from the Greek στιλπνη, the feminine form of the adjective meaning "glittering" or "glistening," alluding to the glossiness of the plumage of these colorful tanagers.  Comments. Euschemon Sclater, 1851 (type species Tanagra flava Gmelin, 1789, currently Tangara cayana flava), is preoccupied by Euschemon Doubleday, 1846, the name of an Australian butterfly, and so not available" (Burns et al. 2016) (OD per Richard Klim).

cyanoptera
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros dark-winged, blue-winged < κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Pato alas azules” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 434 (Spatula).
● ex “Lindo saihobí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 92 (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Black-headed Tanager (Black-headed)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanoptera cyanoptera
cyanoptera
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros dark-winged, blue-winged < κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Pato alas azules” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 434 (Spatula).
● ex “Lindo saihobí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 92 (Tangara).

Black-headed Tanager (Black-hooded)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanoptera whitelyi
whitelyana / whitelyi
Henry Whitely, Jr. (1844-1892) English collector in Japan and tropical America (syn. Amazilia brevirostris, syn. Delichon dasypus, syn. Elaenia cristata, Heliodoxa, syn. Phaethornis bourcieri, Pipreola, Setopagis, Tangara).