Black-spotted Bare-eye

SCI Name:  Phlegopsis nigromaculata
Protonym:  Myothera nigro-maculata Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.14
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Phlegopsis
Taxonomy Code:  bsbeye1
Type Locality:  Guayaros, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PHLEGOPSIS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Black-spotted Bare-eye P. nigromaculata) Gr. φλοξ phlox, φλογος phlogos  flame  < φλεγω phlegō  to flame; οψις opsis  countenance; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LVII, labelled Motacillinae: Troglodytinae & Menurinae, shows the bare 'spectacles' of this group of birds. "The last three birds have the space round the eyes more or less denuded, and would form the subgenus Phlegopsis, Reichb., of which, I believe, F. nigromaculatus is the type" (P. Sclater 1857); "Phlegopsis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1850, pl. 57. Type, by subsequent designation, Myothera nigro-maculata d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 42)." (Peters 1951, VII, 253).
Var. Phlogopsis.
Synon. Skutchia.

nigromaculata / nigromaculatus
L. niger black; maculatus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.

SUBSPECIES

Black-spotted Bare-eye (nigromaculata)
SCI Name: Phlegopsis nigromaculata nigromaculata
nigromaculata / nigromaculatus
L. niger black; maculatus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.

Black-spotted Bare-eye (bowmani)
SCI Name: Phlegopsis nigromaculata bowmani
bowmani
● David Bowman Riker (1861-1954) US rubber-plantation owner, naturalist in Brazil 1867-1954 (subsp. Phlegopsis nigromaculata).
● H. T. Bowman (fl. 1864) British photographer, traveller with Tristram in Palestine (syn. Sylvia melanocephala momus).

Black-spotted Bare-eye (confinis)
SCI Name: Phlegopsis nigromaculata confinis
confinis
L. confinis  similar, nearly related.
● "Upon the whole, it may be that the specimen before me represents an abnormal plumage of T. migratorius; but its rather different proportions, much paler ground color beneath, greater extent of white on the belly, absence of black or dusky on the head, etc., leads me to consider it as distinct" (S. Baird 1864) (Turdus).

Black-spotted Bare-eye (paraensis)
SCI Name: Phlegopsis nigromaculata paraensis
paraensis
Pará State, eastern Brazil.