Boat-billed Tody-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Hemitriccus josephinae
Protonym:  Euscarthmus josephinae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 33 p.132
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Hemitriccus
Taxonomy Code:  bbttyr1
Type Locality:  Supenaam, west bank of Essequibo River, British Guiana.
Author:  Chubb, C
Publish Year:  1914
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HEMITRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant H. diops) Gr. ἡμι- hēmi-  small  < ἡμισυς hēmisus  half; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "PHYLLOSCARTES   ...   In ihre Nähe würden zu stellen sein die Genera:  Hemitriccus Nob. (von ἡμι, halb und τρικκος = Todus).  (Musciphaga (!) Less. 1831).  Von Euscarthmus durch längere Flügel, stärken und breitern Schwanz und grössere Entwickelung der Bartborsten verschieden:   H. diops. — Muscicapa diops "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 144.1. — Todirostrum diops Lafr. R. Z. 1846. p. 365. 13. — Euscarthmus vilis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 490. — Muscicapa vilis Licht. in Mus. Berol. (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Hemitriccus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 52.  New name for Musciphaga Lesson, 1837, considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Hemitriscus.   
Synon. Andinotriccus, Bornscheinia, Campina, Ceratotriccus, Euscarthmornis, Idioptilon, Inambariornis, Microcochlearius, Musciphaga, Snethlagea, Todirhamphus.

josephina / josephinae
● Benoîte-Marguerite-Joséphine Lacroix née Labruyère (fl. 1833) wife of French politician and benefactor of natural history Charles-Julien Lacroix  (Martin Schneider and Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Chrysuronia oenone).
● Josephine Vavasour McConnell (1906-1982) daughter of English collector Frederick Vavasour McConnell (Hemitriccus, subsp. Synallaxis albescens).
● Joséphine de Beauharnais (née Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Empress Consort of the French (1763-1814; reigned 1804-1814) (syn. Podica senegalensis).