Booted Warbler / Iduna caligata
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Booted Warbler
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvia caligata ReisevonOrenburgBuchara[Eversmann] p.128
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae / Iduna
Taxonomy Code: boowar1
Type Locality: Ilek River, near Orenburg.
Author: Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year: 1823
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
IDUNA
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Booted Warbler I. caligata) Norse myth. Iðunn or Iduna, goddess of spring and fertility, keeper of the magic apples of rejuvenation, who was changed into a sparrow to enable her rescue by Loki, in falcon form, from the giant Þjazi or Thiassi (Raul Mohedano in litt.); "IDUNA: 235. L. CALIGATA Lichtenst. — Sylvia caligata Licht. in Eversm. Reise p. 128. — Motacilla Salicaria Pall. Zoogr. I. p. 492. n. 127. In Russland und Sibirien strichweise in Weidengebüschen an Flüssen hin, so weit strauchartige Gewächse gedeihen, auch in Daurien beobachtet, von EVERSMANN am Ilek, einem Nebenflusse des Ural angetroffen." (von Keyserling & Blasius 1840); "Iduna Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, 1840, Wirbelthiere Europa's, p. 58. Type, by monotypy, Sylvia caligata Lichtenstein." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 78).
Synon. Chloropeta, Jerdonia, Psaltria.
caligata / caligatus
L. caligatus booted < caliga boot.
● ex “Chorlito pardo menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 400 (syn. Tringa solitaria).
● “Booted Trogon ... is rendered remarkable by the circumstance of the tarsi being thickly clothed down to the toes” (Gould 1838) (subsp. Trogon violaceus).
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)
