Chestnut-headed Bee-eater / Merops leschenaulti
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Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Merops Leschenaulti Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 14 p.17
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code: chbeat1
Type Locality: Java, error = Ceylon.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1817
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis bee-eater < Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; "57. MEROPS. Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum. Lingua apice laciniata. Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.
leschenault / leschenaulti / leschenaultii
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de la Tour (1773-1826) French botanist, ornithologist, collector in the East Indies 1801-1806, India and Ceylon 1816-1822, and Cayenne 1823-1824 (Charadrius, Enicurus, subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, Merops (ex “Guêpier Laichenot” of Levaillant 1807), Taccocua).
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (leschenaulti)
SCI Name: Merops leschenaulti leschenaulti
leschenault / leschenaulti / leschenaultii
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de la Tour (1773-1826) French botanist, ornithologist, collector in the East Indies 1801-1806, India and Ceylon 1816-1822, and Cayenne 1823-1824 (Charadrius, Enicurus, subsp. Ketupa zeylonensis, Merops (ex “Guêpier Laichenot” of Levaillant 1807), Taccocua).
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (andamanensis)
SCI Name: Merops leschenaulti andamanensis
andamana / andamanensis / andamanica / andamanicus / andamanus
Andaman Is., Indian Ocean.
Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (quinticolor)
SCI Name: Merops leschenaulti quinticolor
quinticolor
Mod. L. quinticolor, quinticoloris five-coloured < L. quintus fifth < quinque five; color, coloris colour.
● ex “Sénégali quinticolor” of Vieillot 1805 (syn. Aegintha temporalis).
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)
