Boran Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola bodessa
Protonym:  Cisticola subruficapilla bodessa Smiths.Misc.Coll. 61 no.11 p.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  borcis1
Type Locality:  Bodessa, near the Sagan River, southern Abyssinia.
Author:  Mearns
Publish Year:  1913
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

bodessa
Bodessa, Sagan River, southern Abyssinia / Ethiopia.

SUBSPECIES

Boran Cisticola (bodessa)
SCI Name: Cisticola bodessa bodessa
bodessa
Bodessa, Sagan River, southern Abyssinia / Ethiopia.

Boran Cisticola (kaffensis)
SCI Name: Cisticola bodessa kaffensis
kaffanus / kaffensis
Kaffa Province, south-western Ethiopia.