Blue-billed Black-Tyrant / Knipolegus cyanirostris
WBN 
Blue-billed Black-Tyrant
SCI Name:
Protonym: Muscicapa cyanirostris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 21 p.447
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Knipolegus
Taxonomy Code: bbbtyr1
Type Locality: Paraguay.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos insect; λεγω legō to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors. Muscicapa Lin. 2 ... 2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis).
Var. Cnipolegus.
Synon. Ada, Blechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.
cyanirostris
L. cyaneus dark-blue < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos dark-blue, glossy; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Suirirí negro pico celeste” of de Azara 1802-1805, no.181 (Knipolegus).
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)
