Blue-moustached Bee-eater / Merops mentalis
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Blue-moustached Bee-eater
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Protonym: Merops mentalis J.Orn. 37 p.78
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code: bumbee1
Type Locality: Cameroon.
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1889
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis bee-eater < Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; "57. MEROPS. Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum. Lingua apice laciniata. Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin (cf. Late L. mentalis of the mind < L. mens, mentis mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).
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)
