Cinereous Tyrant / Knipolegus striaticeps
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Cinereous Tyrant
SCI Name:
Protonym: M[uscisaxicola] striaticeps Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.66
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Knipolegus
Taxonomy Code: cintyr1
Type Locality: 'La Paz'' [= Chiquitos, fide Hellmayr, 1925, Novit. Zool., p. 334] , Bolivia.
Author: d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
KNIPOLEGUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Blue-billed Black Tyrant K. cyanirostris) Gr. κνιψ knips, κνιπος knipos insect; λεγω legō to pick; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors. Muscicapa Lin. 2 ... 2 Ferner könnten als Gattungen abgesondert werden: Knipolegus für Musc. lophotes Tem. und cyaneirostris Vieill. Az. 181" (Boie 1826); "Knipolegus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa cyanirostris Vieillot." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 173) (see Xolmis).
Var. Cnipolegus.
Synon. Ada, Blechropus, Entotriccus, Eumyiobius, Phaeotriccus, Sericoptila.
striaticeps
L. striatus striated < striare to striate < stria furrow; –ceps -capped < caput, capitis head.
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)
