Eastern Olivaceous Warbler

SCI Name:  Iduna pallida
Protonym:  Curruca pallida Symb.Phys.Aves(1828) (1828), sig.bb note3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae / Iduna
Taxonomy Code:  eaowar1
Type Locality:  the Nile in Egypt and Nubia.
Author:  Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Publish Year:  1833
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

IDUNA
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Booted Warbler I. caligata) Norse myth. Iðunn or Iduna, goddess of spring and fertility, keeper of the magic apples of rejuvenation, who was changed into a sparrow to enable her rescue by Loki, in falcon form, from the giant Þjazi or Thiassi (Raul Mohedano in litt.); "IDUNA:  235. L. CALIGATA Lichtenst. — Sylvia caligata Licht. in Eversm. Reise p. 128. — Motacilla Salicaria Pall. Zoogr. I. p. 492. n. 127.  In Russland und Sibirien strichweise in Weidengebüschen an Flüssen hin, so weit strauchartige Gewächse gedeihen, auch in Daurien beobachtet, von EVERSMANN am Ilek, einem Nebenflusse des Ural angetroffen." (von Keyserling & Blasius 1840); "Iduna Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, 1840, Wirbelthiere Europa's, p. 58. Type, by monotypy, Sylvia caligata Lichtenstein." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 78).
Synon. Chloropeta, Jerdonia, Psaltria.

pallida
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.

SUBSPECIES

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (elaeica)
SCI Name: Iduna pallida elaeica
elaeica
Gr. ελαικος elaikos of olives  < ελαια elaia  olive.

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (pallida)
SCI Name: Iduna pallida pallida
pallida
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (reiseri)
SCI Name: Iduna pallida reiseri
reiseri
Dr C. H. Othmar Reiser (1861-1936) Austrian ornithologist, Curator of Natural History Mus., Sarajevo 1887-1920, collector in Brazil 1903 (syn. Alectoris graeca, syn. Cettia cetti sericea, subsp. Cranioleuca vulpina, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, subsp. Iduna pallida, syn. Oenanthe hispanica, Phyllomyias, syn. Prunella collaris subalpina, subsp. Sittasomus griseicapillus, syn. Turdus viscivorus deichleri).

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (laeneni)
SCI Name: Iduna pallida laeneni
laeneni
● Julien René Laenen (b. 1916) Belgian ornithologist, taxidermist, collector in Angola, the Algerian Sahara, Chad and the Sahel (syn. Eremomela icteropygialis alexanderi, subsp. Iduna pallida, subsp. Passer griseus, subsp. Urocolius macrourus).
● Julien René Laenen (b. 1916) Belgian ornithologist, and his wife Yolande (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Regulus ignicapilla balearicus).