Dot-winged Antwren

SCI Name:  Microrhopias quixensis
Protonym:  Thamnophilus quixensis Vert.Syn.Mus.Mediol.ext.Oscul.coll. p.6,12
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Microrhopias
Taxonomy Code:  dowant1
Type Locality:  eastern Ecuador =
Author:  Cornalia
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MICRORHOPIAS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Dot-winged Antwren M. quixensis) Gr. μικρος mikros  little; genus Rhopias Cabanis, 1859, antbird; "c. Microrhopias.  1116. FORMICIVORA QUIXENSIS. Thamnophilus quixensis, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♂).  Thamnophilus rufiventris, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♀).  Pyriglena quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 112, et 1858, p. 67. Pyriglena rufiventris, Sclater, ibid. (♀).  Formicivora quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 241.   ...   1117. FORMICIVORA CONSOBRINA.   ...   1118. FORMICIVORA BOUCARDII." (P. Sclater 1862); "Microrhopias Sclater, Cat. Coll. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 182. Type, by subsequent designation, F. quixensis = Thamnophilus quixensis Cornalia (Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 15, 1890, p. 248)." (Peters 1951, VII, 204).

quixensis
Río Quixos / Río Quijos, Napo-Pastaza, Ecuador.

SUBSPECIES

Dot-winged Antwren (Boucard's)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis [boucardi Group]
MICRORHOPIAS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Dot-winged Antwren M. quixensis) Gr. μικρος mikros  little; genus Rhopias Cabanis, 1859, antbird; "c. Microrhopias.  1116. FORMICIVORA QUIXENSIS. Thamnophilus quixensis, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♂).  Thamnophilus rufiventris, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♀).  Pyriglena quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 112, et 1858, p. 67. Pyriglena rufiventris, Sclater, ibid. (♀).  Formicivora quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 241.   ...   1117. FORMICIVORA CONSOBRINA.   ...   1118. FORMICIVORA BOUCARDII." (P. Sclater 1862); "Microrhopias Sclater, Cat. Coll. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 182. Type, by subsequent designation, F. quixensis = Thamnophilus quixensis Cornalia (Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 15, 1890, p. 248)." (Peters 1951, VII, 204).

Dot-winged Antwren (microstictus)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis microstictus
microstictus
Gr. μικρος mikros  small; στικτος  stiktos spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

Dot-winged Antwren (quixensis)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis quixensis
quixensis
Río Quixos / Río Quijos, Napo-Pastaza, Ecuador.

Dot-winged Antwren (nigriventris)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis nigriventris
nigriventer / nigriventris
L. niger black; venter, ventris belly.

Dot-winged Antwren (White-tailed)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis albicauda/intercedens
MICRORHOPIAS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Dot-winged Antwren M. quixensis) Gr. μικρος mikros  little; genus Rhopias Cabanis, 1859, antbird; "c. Microrhopias.  1116. FORMICIVORA QUIXENSIS. Thamnophilus quixensis, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♂).  Thamnophilus rufiventris, Corn. Syn. Vert. p. 12 (♀).  Pyriglena quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 112, et 1858, p. 67. Pyriglena rufiventris, Sclater, ibid. (♀).  Formicivora quixensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 241.   ...   1117. FORMICIVORA CONSOBRINA.   ...   1118. FORMICIVORA BOUCARDII." (P. Sclater 1862); "Microrhopias Sclater, Cat. Coll. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 182. Type, by subsequent designation, F. quixensis = Thamnophilus quixensis Cornalia (Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 15, 1890, p. 248)." (Peters 1951, VII, 204).

Dot-winged Antwren (bicolor)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis bicolor
bicolor
L. bicolor, bicoloris  bicoloured  < bi-  two-  < bis  twice; color, coloris  colour; epithet usually given to spp. with white underparts and contrastingly darker upperparts.
● ex “Crested Titmouse” of Catesby 1731, and “Mésange hupée de la Caroline” of Brisson 1760 (Baeolophus).
● ex “Coucal Noirou” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 220 (syn. Centropus nigrorufus).
● ex “Colibri Nr. 2” of Fermin 1769, “Saphir-émeraude” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Sapphire-and-Emerald Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (Cyanophaia).
● ex “Pic varié de la Encénade” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 748, fig.1, and “Encenada Woodpecker” of Latham 1782 (syn. Dendrocopos lignarius).
● ex “Pato roxo y negro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 436 (Dendrocygna).
● ex “Ramier blanc mangeur de muscade de la Nouvelle Guinée” of Sonnerat 1776 (Ducula).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à ventre blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 566, fig. 3, and de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Black and white Fly-catcher” of Edwards 1758, and Latham 1783 (syn. Fluvicola pica).
● ex "Merle brun du Cap de Bonne Espérance" of de Buffon 1770-1783, and "White-rumped Thrush" of Latham 1783 (Lamprotornis).
● ex "Bahama Sparrow" of Catesby 1731 (Melanospiza).
● ex “Petit Guêpier du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 318 (?syn. Merops hirundineus).
● ex “Guêpier de l’isle de France” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 252 (syn. Merops viridis).
● ex “Schet Noir” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 148 (syn. Terpsiphone mutata).

Dot-winged Antwren (emiliae)
SCI Name: Microrhopias quixensis emiliae
emiliae
● Emily Eliza Sharpe née Burrows (1843-1928) wife of British ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe (Chlorocharis, subsp. Nigrita canicapillus,  subsp. Tanysiptera galatea).
● Henriette Mathilde Maria Elisabeth Emilie Snethlage (1868-1929) German ornithologist, collector in Brazil 1905-1929, Director of the Goeldi Mus. 1914-1922 (subsp. Dysithamnus mentalis, subsp. Microrhopias quixensis).
● "Iodopleura Emiliæ. (Parzudaky.)"; lapsus for isabellae (des Murs 1849, Iconographie Ornithologique, pl. 68) (Iodopleura).
● Marie Antoinette Émilie Galichon née Tuffet (1802-1873) second wife of French art collector and historian Émile-Louis Étienne Galichon (d. 1873) (subsp. Phaethornis guy).
● Émilie Lapèyre-Bellair (or Lapère) (fl. 1845) wife of Capt. Jean Théophile Lapèyre-Bellair (1814-1852) French Army, collector in the Marquesas (syn. Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii).
● Émilie de Dalmas (b. 1886) daughter of French ornithologist Raymond Comte de Dalmas (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Tangara lavinia).