Checker-throated Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Chrysophlegma mentale
Protonym:  Picus mentalis Pl.Col. livr.65 pl.384
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chrysophlegma
Taxonomy Code:  chtwoo1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOPHLEGMA
(Picidae; Ϯ Greater Yellow-nape C. flavinucha) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; φλεγμα phlegma, φλεγματος phlegmatos  heat, flame; "CHRYSOPHLEGMA FLAVINUCHA, Gould.  Yellow-naped Woodpecker.   ...   Head olive-green, washed with rufous on the forehead; occiput adorned with lengthened silky rich yellow feathers ...  primaries and inner webs of the secondaries chestnut, crossed by broad bands of, and largely tipped with, brownish black" (Gould 1850); "Chrysophlegma Gould, Bds. Asia, pt. 1, 1850, pl. [6] and text [= 6, pl. 36 of volume.] Type, by monotypy, Picus flavinucha Gould." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 130).
Synon. Brachylophus.

mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis  pertaining to the chin  < French mental of the chin  < L. mentum  chin (cf. Late L. mentalis  of the mind  < L. mens, mentis  mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).

SUBSPECIES

Checker-throated Woodpecker (Checker-throated)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma mentale humii
humii
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) English civil servant in India 1850-1894, ornithologist, collector, founder of journal ‘Stray Feathers’ (subsp. Carpodacus puniceus, Chrysophlegma, subsp. Coccothraustes coccothraustes, subsp. Hypsipetes ganeesa, syn. Periparus ater aemodius, syn. Psilopogon mystacophanos, Pycnonotus leucogenys x P. leucotis hybrid, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris (ex Sturnus nitens Hume, 1871), subsp. Suthora nipalensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Checker-throated Woodpecker (Javan)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma mentale mentale
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis  pertaining to the chin  < French mental of the chin  < L. mentum  chin (cf. Late L. mentalis  of the mind  < L. mens, mentis  mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).