Buff-spotted Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Campethera nivosa
Protonym:  Dendromus nivosus BirdsW.Afr. 2 p.162
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Campethera
Taxonomy Code:  buswoo1
Type Locality:  West Africa.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPETHERA
(Picidae; Ϯ Little Green Woodpecker C. maculosa) Gr. καμπη kampē  caterpillar; -θηρας -thēras  hunter  < θηραω thēraō  to hunt  < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros  beast, animal; "CAMPETHERA, G. R. Gray (1841).  Dendromus ^a, Swains.  Picus, Swains.  C. brachyrhyncha, (Swains.) G. R. Gray.   ...   ^a Used in Mammalogy." (G. Gray 1841); "Campethera G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 70.  New name for Dendromus Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Dendromus A. Smith, 1829 (Mammalia)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Campetherus, Campothera.
Synon. Chrysopicos, Chrysoptilopicus, Cnipotheres, Dendromus, Ipagrus, Notopicus, Pardipicus, Stictocraugus, Stictopicus.

nivosa / nivosus
L. nivosus  snowy  < nix, nivis  snow.

SUBSPECIES

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (nivosa)
SCI Name: Campethera nivosa nivosa
nivosa / nivosus
L. nivosus  snowy  < nix, nivis  snow.

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (poensis)
SCI Name: Campethera nivosa poensis
poense / poensis
Fernando Póo or Fernando Pó, Gulf of Guinea / Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (island sighted by Portuguese navigator Fernaõ do Póo in 1470).

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (herberti)
SCI Name: Campethera nivosa herberti
herberti / herbertii
● Edward Grevile Herbert (1870-1951) British businessman with Bombay-Burmah Trading Corporation, naturalist, collector (subsp. Alauda gulgula, syn. Napothera brevicaudata leucosticta, subsp. Prinia inornata, Stachyris).
● Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart. (1606-1682) English traveller and author (syn. Aphanapteryx bonasia).
● Herbert Alexander (1874-1946) English artist, author, brother of explorer Capt. Boyd Alexander (subsp. Campethera nivosa, Phylloscopus, syn. Ploceus preussi).
● Herbert Girton Deignan (1906-1968) US ornithologist (subsp. Harpactes ardens).
● Herbert Ashley Riker (d. 1937) US rubber-plantation owner in Brazil 1867-1937, naturalist (subsp. Pheugopedius coraya).

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (maxima)
SCI Name: Campethera nivosa maxima
maxima / maximi
L. maximus greatest < super. magnus great.