Chestnut-rumped Heathwren

SCI Name:  Hylacola pyrrhopygia
Protonym:  Acanthiza pyrrhopygia Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 15(1826) p.227
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Hylacola
Taxonomy Code:  chrhea1
Type Locality:  New South Wales.
Author:  Vigors & Horsfield
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYLACOLA
(Acanthizidae; † Chestnut-rumped Heathwren H. pyrrhopygia) Gr. ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell; "Mr. Gould then mentioned, that having obtained another species of the same form as the Acanthiza pyrrhopygia of Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield, which latter differs considerably from the other members of that group, he proposed to form the two birds into a new genus, under the name of Hylacola, with the following characters:— Genus HYLACOLA.  Gen. Char.—Rostrum capite brevius, compressum, ad basin æque altum atque latum; culmen gradatim ad apicem mandibulæ superioris declive; apex leviter emarginatus; rictus vibrissis raris instructus.  Nares basales, oblongæ, magis grandes, et operculo tectæ.  Alæ breves, admodum rotundatæ concavæ; primariæ prima, secunda et tertia, longitudine dissimili, quarta, quinta, et sexta coæquales, et longissimæ.  Cauda magis elongata, et rotundata.  Tarsi mediocres.  Digiti magis elongati; externi coæquales.   Typus, Acanthiza pyrrhopygia, Vig. and Horsf.    HYLACOLA CAUTA   ...   Hab. Western Belts of the Murray in South Australia." (Gould 1843); "Hylacola Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1842, p. 135, Feb. 1843.  Type (by original designation): Acanthiza pyrrhopygia V. & H." (Mathews, 1930, Syst. Av. Austral., II, p. 561).

pyrrhopygia / pyrrhopygius
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (pyrrhopygia)
SCI Name: Hylacola pyrrhopygia pyrrhopygia
pyrrhopygia / pyrrhopygius
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (parkeri)
SCI Name: Hylacola pyrrhopygia parkeri
parkeri
● Shane Alwyne Parker (1943-1992) English ornithologist, emigrated to Australia 1967, Curator of Birds at South Australian Mus. 1976-1991, collector, marine zoologist (subsp. Acanthagenys rufogularis, subsp. Barnardius zonarius, subsp. Hylacola pyrrhopygia).
● Theodore 'Ted' Albert Parker III (1953-1993) US field ornithologist with an unparalleled knowledge of Neotropical birds, tragically killed in an air-crash (Cercomacroides, Glaucidium, Herpsilochmus, subsp. Metallura theresiae, subsp. Phainoptila melanoxantha, Phylloscartes, Scytalopus, subsp. Thamnophilus stictocephalus).
● Prof. Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) English biologist, university administrator, resident in New Zealand 1880-1897 (‡syn. Euryapteryx geranoides, ‡syn. Porphyrio mantelli).

Chestnut-rumped Heathwren (pedleri)
SCI Name: Hylacola pyrrhopygia pedleri
pedleri
Lynn P. Pedler (fl. 2008) Australian ornithologist (subsp. Amytornis merrotsyi, subsp. Hylacola pyrrhopygia).