Black-rumped Flameback

SCI Name:  Dinopium benghalense
Protonym:  Picus benghalensis Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.113
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Dinopium
Taxonomy Code:  bkrfla1
Type Locality:  Bengal.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DINOPIUM
(Picidae; Ϯ Common Flame-back D. javanense) Gr. δεινος deinos  mighty, huge; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance; "Description de 4 nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux de l'Ile de Java, observés dans le museum de Mr. Peale à Philadelphie, Turnix javanica, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus, Hirundo longipennis et Sylvia cuneata." (Rafinesque 1814); "Dinopium Rafinesque, Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie, 1814, p. 2 of cover. Type, by monotypy, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus Rafinesque, which is based on "le picoïde à dos rouge", Bull. des Sciences de Soc. Philom., Paris, 3, 1803, p. 146 = Picus javanensis Ljungh." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 143). 
Var. Dinopicus (Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker). 
Synon. Brachypternopicus, Brachypternus, Brahmapicus, Chloropicoides, Chrysonotus, Gauropicoides, Mesospilus, Tiga.

benghalense / benghalensis
Bengal, India (see bengalensis).
● "48. CORVUS.  ...  benghalensis.  6. C. vertice alis caudaque cæruleis, collo griseo.  Pica glandaria benghalensis. Alb. av. I. p. 17. t. 17.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Coracias). This name is the seventh toponym in avian nomenclature.
● "54. PICUS.  ...  benghalensis.  8. viridis, occipite rubro, nucha nigra, subtus anticeque albus nigro maculatus.  Picus benghalensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 21. t. 22. Edw. av. 182. l. 182.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dinopium). This name is the tenth toponym in avian nomenclature.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  benghalensis.  23. L. grisea, pileo flavo, temporibus albidis, abdomine albido fusco-maculato.  Passer benghalensis, capite flavo. Edw. av. 189. t. 189. Alb. av. 2. p. 48. t. 52.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Ploceus).
● "83. RALLUS.  ...  benghalensis.  4. R. corpore vertice oculisque albis, capite colloque nigris, alis dorsoque viridibus, remigibus primariis rubro-maculatis.  Rallus benghalensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 85. t. 90.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Rostratula).
● ex “Brown Indian Thrush” of Edwards 1751 (syn. Turdoides striata).

SUBSPECIES

Black-rumped Flameback (benghalense)
SCI Name: Dinopium benghalense benghalense
benghalense / benghalensis
Bengal, India (see bengalensis).
● "48. CORVUS.  ...  benghalensis.  6. C. vertice alis caudaque cæruleis, collo griseo.  Pica glandaria benghalensis. Alb. av. I. p. 17. t. 17.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Coracias). This name is the seventh toponym in avian nomenclature.
● "54. PICUS.  ...  benghalensis.  8. viridis, occipite rubro, nucha nigra, subtus anticeque albus nigro maculatus.  Picus benghalensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 21. t. 22. Edw. av. 182. l. 182.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dinopium). This name is the tenth toponym in avian nomenclature.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  benghalensis.  23. L. grisea, pileo flavo, temporibus albidis, abdomine albido fusco-maculato.  Passer benghalensis, capite flavo. Edw. av. 189. t. 189. Alb. av. 2. p. 48. t. 52.  Habitat in Benghala." (Linnaeus 1758) (Ploceus).
● "83. RALLUS.  ...  benghalensis.  4. R. corpore vertice oculisque albis, capite colloque nigris, alis dorsoque viridibus, remigibus primariis rubro-maculatis.  Rallus benghalensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 85. t. 90.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Rostratula).
● ex “Brown Indian Thrush” of Edwards 1751 (syn. Turdoides striata).

Black-rumped Flameback (dilutum)
SCI Name: Dinopium benghalense dilutum
dilutum / dilutus
L. dilutus  weak, diluted, resolved, thin, soft  < diluere  to dissolve  < dis  separate, apart; luere  to make good.

Black-rumped Flameback (tehminae)
SCI Name: Dinopium benghalense tehminae
tehminae
Tehmina (1902-1939) wife of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali (subsp. Dinopium benghalense).

Black-rumped Flameback (puncticolle)
SCI Name: Dinopium benghalense puncticolle
puncticolle / puncticollis
L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture; Mod. L. -collis  -throated, -necked  < L. collum  neck.

Black-rumped Flameback (jaffnense)
SCI Name: Dinopium benghalense jaffnense
jaffnense / jaffnensis
Jaffna, Ceylon / Yaalpaanam, Sri Lanka.