Dusky Spinetail

SCI Name:  Synallaxis moesta
Protonym:  Synallaxis moesta Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt24 no.302 p.26
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Synallaxis
Taxonomy Code:  dusspi1
Type Locality:  Bogota.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1856
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

SYNALLAXIS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Rufous-capped Spinetail S. ruficapilla)  Gr. συναλλαξις sunallaxis, συναλλαξεως sunallaxeōs  exchange; perhaps given because Vieillot thought the two species may represent the two sexes of a single species, or an allusion to their characters warranting generic separation.  Reichenbach 1853, complained that Synallaxis, of feminine gender, contained the Latin masculine noun axis  axle, and wondered what scientists were to make of it!; "SYNALLAXE, Synallaxis.   Bec grêle, entier, pointu; mandibule supérieure un peu arquée, l'inférieure droit; narines couvertes de plumes à leur base; ailes courtes, arrondies." (Vieillot 1818); "SYNALLAXE, Synallaxis. Genre de l'ordre des Oiseaux SYLVAINS et de la famille des GRIMPEREAUX   ...   La SYNALLAXE A QUEUE ROUSSE, Synallaxis ruficauda, Vieill., a été apportée du Brésil.   ...   La SYNALLAXE A TÊTE ROUSSE, Synallaxis ruficapilla, Vieill., se trouve au Brésil.   ...   Les différences qu'on remarque entre cet oiseau et le précédent, ne caractérisent-elles pas les sexes?" (Vieillot 1819); "Synallaxis Vieillot, Nouv. Sict. Hist. Nat., 24, 1818, p. 117. Generic characters only; species added op. cit., 32, 1819, p. 310. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis ruficapilla Vieillot (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 17)." (Peters 1951, VII, 80). 
Var. Synnalaxis, Synnallaxis, Synalaxis.   
Synon. Anabates, Barnesia, Gyalophylax, Parulus, Poecilurus, Siptornopsis.

moesta
L. maestus  sad, sorrowful  < maerere  to mourn.
● ex “Pepoazá iruperó” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 204 (syn. Xolmis irupero).

SUBSPECIES

Dusky Spinetail (moesta)
SCI Name: Synallaxis moesta moesta
moesta
L. maestus  sad, sorrowful  < maerere  to mourn.
● ex “Pepoazá iruperó” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 204 (syn. Xolmis irupero).

Dusky Spinetail (obscura)
SCI Name: Synallaxis moesta obscura
obscura
L. obscurus  dark, dusky, covered, obscure.
● ex “Dusky Duck” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (syn. Anas rubripes).
● ex “Brown Tern” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Chlidonias niger).
● ex “Yacúhú” of de Azara 1802-1805, No. 335: “Yacús  ...  Asi llaman los Güaranís á tres páxaros  ...  á otro llamado Mitú” (Penelope).
● ex “Dusky Petrel” of Latham 1785 (?syn. Pterodroma alba; unident.).

Dusky Spinetail (brunneicaudalis)
SCI Name: Synallaxis moesta brunneicaudalis
brunneicauda / brunneicaudalis / brunneicaudis / brunneicaudus
Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown; L. cauda  tail.
● “Count Salvadori has changed the name of rufifrons, as the rufous forehead of the type specimen was found to be due to a blood-stain” (Gadow 1884) (syn. Zosterops chloris).