Eurasian Crag-Martin

SCI Name:  Ptyonoprogne rupestris
Protonym:  Hirundo rupestris AnnusIHist.-Nat. p.167
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Ptyonoprogne
Taxonomy Code:  eurcrm1
Type Locality:  Tirol.
Author:  Scopoli
Publish Year:  1769
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.

rupestris
Mod. L. rupestris  rock-dwelling, montane  < L. rupes, rupis  rock  < rumpere  to shatter.
● ex “Rock Grous” of Pennant 1784 (subsp. Lagopus muta).
● ex “Rocar” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 101 < French roc or rocher rock (Monticola).