Crimson-mantled Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Colaptes rivolii
Protonym:  Picus Rivolii Rev.Zool. 3 p.36
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Colaptes
Taxonomy Code:  crmwoo2
Type Locality:  No type locality; Chipaque, 9500 feet, 15 miles east of Bogota, designated by Chapman, 1917, p. 345.
Author:  Boissonneau
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs  chiseller  < κολαπτω kolaptō  to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers   ...   § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note.  Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).  
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.

rivoli / rivolii
François Victor Masséna 3rd Prince d’Essling and 2nd Duc de Rivoli (1799-1863) French ornithologist, collector (Colaptes, syn. Eugenes fulgens, Ptilinopus).

SUBSPECIES

Crimson-mantled Woodpecker (Crimson-mantled)
SCI Name: Colaptes rivolii [rivolii Group]
COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs  chiseller  < κολαπτω kolaptō  to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers   ...   § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note.  Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).  
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.

Crimson-mantled Woodpecker (Black-crowned)
SCI Name: Colaptes rivolii atriceps
atriceps
L. ater  black; -ceps  -capped, -headed  < caput, capitis  head.