Chucao Tapaculo

SCI Name:  Scelorchilus rubecula
Protonym:  Pteroptochos Rubecula Mem.Acad.Imp.Sci.St.Petersb. 1(1831) p.179 pl.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Rhinocryptidae / Scelorchilus
Taxonomy Code:  chutap1
Type Locality:  Concepcion, Chile.
Author:  von Kittlitz
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SCELORCHILUS
(Rhinocryptidae; Ϯ Chucao Tapaculo S. rubecula) Gr. σκελος skelos  leg; ορχιλος orkhilos  wren. "Habitus benachbart den Gattungen Troglodytes und Myothera   ...  Schenkel und Füsse besonders stark" (von Kittlitz 1830); "Since this is apparently the earliest designation, the generic name Pteroptochos becomes a synonym of Hylactes King, and the group including Pteroptochos rubecula is without a name. It may, therefore, be called Scelorchilus (σκελος, crus  ορχιλος, regulus), with Pteroptochos rubecula Kittlitz as type." (Oberholser 1923).

rubecula
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy.  Epithet also given to unrelated species with red breasts, e.g. Mergus rubecula Palmer, 1836, a new name for the Red-breasted Merganser M. serrator.
● "99. MOTACILLA.  ...  Rubecula.  28. M. grisea, gula pectoreque fulvis. Fn. svec. 226.  Rubecula. Will. orn. 160. t. 38. Raj. av. 78. n. 3. Alb. av. I. p. 49. t. 51. Frisch. av. 3. t. 19. f. 2. Olin av. 16.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Erithacus).
● ex "Red-breasted Tody” of Latham 1787 (Myiagra).

Rubecula
● (syn. Erithacus Ϯ European Robin E. rubecula) Specific name Motacilla rubecula Linnaeus, 1758; "Fünfte Sippe.  Rothkehlchen. Rubecula, Briss. (Dandalus, Boje.)  ...  1) Das Fichtenrothkehlchen. Rubecula pinetorum, Br. (S. rubecula, Lath., Mot. rubecula, Linn.)" (C. Brehm 1831).  Var. Rubecola.
● (syn. Phoenicurus Ϯ Black Redstart P. ochruros) Med. L. rubecula  robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy; "Genus Rubecula; Robin.   The robin-redbreast . . .R. familiaris    The black redstart. . .R. tithys    The common redstart . . .R. arborea   ...   The form of these birds is too well known to require a description: it is intermediate between the nightingales (Philomela) and the chats (Rubetra). It presents itself, however, under two slight modifications, which differ a little in their habits; one, exemplified in the common redstart of this country; the other, in the robin: their respective peculiarities are, however, united in the black redstart (R. tithys), which species may accordingly be selected as the standard of the genus Rubecula" (Blyth 1833).

SUBSPECIES

Chucao Tapaculo (rubecula)
SCI Name: Scelorchilus rubecula rubecula
rubecula
Med. L. rubecula  redbreast or robin  < dim. L. ruber  red, ruddy.  Epithet also given to unrelated species with red breasts, e.g. Mergus rubecula Palmer, 1836, a new name for the Red-breasted Merganser M. serrator.
● "99. MOTACILLA.  ...  Rubecula.  28. M. grisea, gula pectoreque fulvis. Fn. svec. 226.  Rubecula. Will. orn. 160. t. 38. Raj. av. 78. n. 3. Alb. av. I. p. 49. t. 51. Frisch. av. 3. t. 19. f. 2. Olin av. 16.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Erithacus).
● ex "Red-breasted Tody” of Latham 1787 (Myiagra).

Chucao Tapaculo (mochae)
SCI Name: Scelorchilus rubecula mochae
mochae / mochaensis
Isla Mocha, Chile.