Black-striped Woodcreeper

SCI Name:  Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus
Protonym:  Dendrornis lachrymosus Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 7 p.467
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Xiphorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  blswoo1
Type Locality:  Loma del Le6n, Panama.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

XIPHORHYNCHUS
(Furnariidae; † Ivory-billed Woodcreeper X. flavigaster) Gr. ξιφος xiphos  sword; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "G. XIPHORHYNCHUS.  Swains. in Zool. Journ. No. 10.   85. Xiphorhynchus leucogaster.  ...  bill one inch and a half long, slender, pale, the upper mandible brown.  ...   86. Xiphorhynchus flavigaster.  ...  bill long, strong, brown, slightly curved." (Swainson 1827); "Xiphorhynchus Swainson, Philos. Mag. (n.s.), 1, June, 1827, p. 440.  Type, by subsequent designation, Xiphorhynchus flavigaster Swainson (Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 48, 1905, p. 52)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 36).
Var. Xiphorynchus, Xyphorhynchus, Ziphorhynchus, Ziphorynchus.
Synon. Dendrornis, Picolaptes, Talapius, Thripobrotus.
• (Furnariidae; syn. Campylorhamphus † Black-billed Scythebill C. falcularius) "XIPHORHYNCHUS.  Rostrum gracile, elongatum, compressissimum, falcatum, immarginatum.  Bill slender, long, much compressed, falcated and entire.  Type. Dend. procurvus. Temm., Pl. col.. 28.   By this form, the passage is marked from Dendrocolaptes to Certhia.  The species appear numerous.  I possess four from Brazil, and three from Mexico." (Swainson 1827); "Xiphorhynchus (not of SWAINSON, June 1827) SWAINSON, Zool. Journ., 3, No. 11, p. 334, Sept.-Dec. 1827—type by orig. desig. Dendrocolaptes procurvus TEMMINCK [= Dendrocopus falcularius Vieillot]." (Hellmayr, 1925, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IV, p. 339).

lachrymosa / lachrymosus
L. lacrimosus  tearful, mournful, weeping, piteous  < lacrima  tear.

SUBSPECIES

Black-striped Woodcreeper (lachrymosus)
SCI Name: Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus lachrymosus
lachrymosa / lachrymosus
L. lacrimosus  tearful, mournful, weeping, piteous  < lacrima  tear.

Black-striped Woodcreeper (eximius)
SCI Name: Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus eximius
eximium / eximius
L. eximius  select, distinguished  < eximere  to take away  < emere  to purchase.

Black-striped Woodcreeper (alarum)
SCI Name: Xiphorhynchus lachrymosus alarum
alarum
L. alarum of the wings < ala wing.