Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot / Micropsitta pusio
Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot
SCI Name:
Protonym: Nasiterna pusio Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1865) (1865), Pt3 p.620 pl.35
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Micropsitta
Taxonomy Code: bfppar1
Type Locality: Solomon Islands, error = Duke of York Island.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1866
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MICROPSITTA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot M. keiensis chloroxantha) Gr. μικρος mikros small; Mod. L. psitta parrot < Gr. ψιττακη psittakē parrot; "XI.e Sous-genre. MICROPSITTE; Micropsitta. Bec très-court, très-haut, très-comprimé sur les côtés, à pointe très-recourbée, à bords saillans, séparés de la pointe par une profonde échancrure triangulaire; mandibule inférieure courte, mutique, rubanée et carénée en devant; tarses très-courts; queue courte, arrondie; chaque rectrice terminée en pointe mucronée, aiguë; ailes pointues, aussi longues que la queue. Observ. Ce sous-genre ne renferme qu'une espèce, d'une taille excessivement petite, vrai pygmée de la famille des perroquets. Cet oiseau curieux, découvert par MM. Quoy et Gaimard à la Nouvelle-Guinée, décrit et figuré dans la partie zoologique du Voyage de l'Astrolabe, en ce moment en publication, est de la grosseur d'un troglodyte ordinaire." (Lesson 1831); "Micropsitta Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 8, 1831, p. 646. Type, by monotypy, "Cet oiseau curieux ... troglodyte ordinaire" = Psittacus (Psittacula) pygmeus Quoy and Gaimard, not Psittacus pygmaeus Gmelin = Micropsitta chloroxantha Oberholser." (Peters 1937, III, 167).
Synon. Micropsites, Nasiterna.
pusio
L. pusio, pusionis small boy < pusus little boy < puer boy.
SUBSPECIES
Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot (beccarii)
SCI Name: Micropsitta pusio beccarii
beccariana / beccarianus / beccarii
Dr Odoardo Beccari (1843-1920) Italian botanist, explorer, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (subsp. Aethopyga siparaja, Alopecoenas, syn. Casuarius casuarius, Cochoa, syn. Cyornis rufigastra, syn. Cyornis superbus, Dicaeum, Drymodes, subsp. Goura victoria, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, Otus, Sericornis, subsp. Turnix maculosus).
Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot (pusio)
SCI Name: Micropsitta pusio pusio
pusio
L. pusio, pusionis small boy < pusus little boy < puer boy.
Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot (harterti)
SCI Name: Micropsitta pusio harterti
harterti / hartertiana / hartertianus
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859-1933) German ornithologist, collector, Curator of Rothschild Mus., Tring (syn. Acestrura berlepschi, subsp. Acrocephalus australis, subsp. Alauda arvensis, syn. Aplonis opaca kurodai, subsp. Arses telescopthalmus, syn. Artamus leucoryn leucopygialis, Asthenes, Batrachostomus, syn. Brachypteryx leucophrys carolinae, subsp. Burhinus oedicnemus, subsp. Buteo buteo, Camaroptera, subsp. Campylorhynchus albobrunneus, syn. Certhia brachydactyla, subsp. Chalcites lucidus, syn. Chlorocichla simplex, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, subsp. Circus aeruginosus, syn. Cisticola juncidis, syn. Columba delegorguei sharpei, subsp. Crypturellus soui, syn. Cyanistes caeruleus ogliastrae, syn. Cyornis unicolor cyanopolia, subsp. Dendrocopos major, subsp. Dicrurus macrocercus, syn. Dryobates minor colchicus, syn. Dyaphorophyia concreta graueri, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, syn. Entomyzon cyanotis, syn. Eophona migratoria sowerbyi, subsp. Eudynamys scolopaceus, subsp. Eumyias panayensis, syn. Eurostopodus argus, Eurylaimus, syn. Falco peregrinus calidus, Ficedula, subsp. Fringilla coelebs, syn. Galerida theklae ruficolor, syn. Geospiza fuliginosa, subsp. Heleia superciliaris, subsp. Hemiprocne longipennis, syn. Hieraaetus pennatus, syn. Hypsipetes amaurotis stejnegeri, syn. Icterus icterus, subsp. Illadopsis turdina, syn. Jynx torquilla sarudnyi, syn. Lagonosticta nitidula, subsp. Linaria cannabina, syn. Lullula arborea pallida, subsp. Machaerirhynchus nigripectus, subsp. Malacocincla sepiaria, subsp. Melanorectes nigrescens, syn. Metallura tyrianthina oreopola, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Monarcha cinerascens, subsp. Mulleripicus pulverulentus, syn. Myiozetetes cayanensis hellmayri, subsp. Myrmecocichla arnotti, subsp. Myzomela obscura, syn. Ochrospiza dorsostriata maculicollis, syn. Onychognathus fulgidus hartlaubii, syn. Phylloscopus orientalis, syn. Phylloscopus reguloides assamensis, Phlogophilus, syn. Picoides kizuki matsudairai, subsp. Picumnus olivaceus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Pnoepyga pusilla, syn. Poephila personata, subsp. Prionops caniceps, subsp. Psittacella brehmii, syn. Pternistis afer cranchii, syn. Pycnonotus barbatus tricolor, syn. Rhipidura albiscapa alisteri, syn. Rhipidura rufifrons granti, subsp. Rhodinocichla rosea, syn. Rhyticeros plicatus, syn. Scotocerca inquieta, subsp. Sericornis frontalis, syn. Sitta europaea roseilia, syn. Strix aluco nivicola, syn. Sturnus vulgaris porphyronotus, Tarphonomus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, Thapsinillas, syn. Treron curvirostra, syn. Vanellus miles, syn. Yuhina flavicollis rouxi, subsp. Zosterops citrinella, syn. Zosterops japonicus simplex).
Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot (stresemanni)
SCI Name: Micropsitta pusio stresemanni
stresemanni
Prof. Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (1889-1972) German ornithologist, explorer, collector (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, syn. Alisterus chloropterus callopterus, subsp. Aviceda subcristata, syn. Cacomantis variolosus aeruginosus, subsp. Certhia brachydactyla, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, subsp. Collocalia esculenta, Cyornis, subsp. Dendrocopos major, syn. Dendropicos fuscescens centralis, subsp. Dicaeum trochileum, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, syn. Epimachus fastuosus atratus, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, subsp. Heleia squamiceps, syn. Hemiprocne comata, syn. Hemispingus melanotis, subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus, Hylexetastes, subsp. Hypsipetes leucocephalus, subsp. Lanius schach, syn. Locustella davidi, subsp. Malia grata, subsp. Melidectes rufocrissalis, subsp. Melilestes megarhynchus, Merulaxis, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Myiodynastes maculatus, subsp. Nisaetus nanus, subsp. Oriolus chinensis, syn. Otocompsa sinensis, syn. Otus spilocephalus vandewateri, syn. Pachycephala phaionota, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, syn. Picus canus kogo, syn. Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax brachypus, syn. Scleroptila levaillantoides, syn. Sericornis nouhuysi pontifex, subsp. Sinosuthora alphonsiana, subsp. Stactolaema whytii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris, subsp. Trichoglossus forsteni, syn. Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, Zaratornis, Zavattariornis, Zosterops).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
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/: separates historical and modern geographic names
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TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)