Dusky Crag-Martin

SCI Name:  Ptyonoprogne concolor
Protonym:  Hirundo concolor Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.18 p.83
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Ptyonoprogne
Taxonomy Code:  duscrm1
Type Locality:  the Dukhun.
Author:  Sykes
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTYONOPROGNE
(Hirundinidae; † Eurasian Crag Martin P. rupestris) Gr. πτυον ptuon  fan   < πτυσσω ptussō  to fold; L. progne  swallow  < Gr. myth. Progne, Procne or Prokne, metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne).  Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXXVII, labelled Hirundineae: Hirundininae et Cypselinae, shows the shallowly forked, fan-shaped spread tail of the Eurasian Crag Martin; G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 13, gives Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, 1758,  as the type of this genus; "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. pl. lxxxvii, 1850.  Type by monotypy, Hirundo rupestris Scop. (also by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. x, p. 95, 1885)." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, 584); "Ptyonoprogne Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 87, fig. [6]. Generic details only; species added, Parzudaki, 1857, Cat. Ois. Europe (1856), p. 8.  Type, Hirundo rupestris Scopoli." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 101).
Var. Ptyoprocne, Ptionoprogne.
Synon. Biblis, Chelidonia, Krimnochelidon.

concolor
L. concolor, concoloris  of the same colour, concolorous, similar  < cum (old form com)  together with; color, coloris  colour.

SUBSPECIES

Dusky Crag-Martin (concolor)
SCI Name: Ptyonoprogne concolor concolor
concolor
L. concolor, concoloris  of the same colour, concolorous, similar  < cum (old form com)  together with; color, coloris  colour.

Dusky Crag-Martin (sintaungensis)
SCI Name: Ptyonoprogne concolor sintaungensis
sintaungensis
Sintaung Hills, Shan States, Burma / Myanmar.