Gilded Flicker / Colaptes chrysoides
Gilded Flicker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Geopicus (Colaptes) chrysoides Rev.Mag.Zool. (2), 4 p.553
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Colaptes
Taxonomy Code: gilfli
Type Locality: America; Cape San Lucas, Baja California fixed as type locality by Anthony, Auk, 12, 1895, p. 347.
Author: Malherbe
Publish Year: 1852
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs chiseller < κολαπτω kolaptō to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers ... § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note. Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.
chrysoides
Gr. χρυσοειδης khrusoeidēs golden, like gold < χρυσος khrusos gold; -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "Geopicus (Colaptes, Sw.) chrysoïdes, Malh. ... En rédigeant le catalogue des Picidés du Muséum de Paris, je reconnus qu'un Géopic, que jusqu'ici j'avais cru être la femelle du Picus Ayresii d'Audubon (Birds of America, vol. 1, p. 548), devait constituer une espèce différente, très-voisine de celle-ci et de l'Auratus." (Malherbe 1852) (Colaptes).
SUBSPECIES
Gilded Flicker (mearnsi)
SCI Name: Colaptes chrysoides mearnsi
mearnsi
Lt.-Col. Edgar Alexander Mearns (1858-1916) US Army 1883-1909, surgeon, collector in Mexico 1892-1894, the Philippines 1903-1907, and tropical Africa 1909-1911 (Aerodramus, subsp. Agelaius phoeniceus, subsp. Colaptes chrysoides, subsp. Cyrtonyx montezumae, subsp. Junco hyemalis, subsp. Lanius ludovicianus, syn. Macronus striaticeps mindanensis, syn. Melanerpes formicivorus, subsp. Orthotomus frontalis, subsp. Toxostoma cinereum, syn. Turtur afer, subsp. Zenaida asiatica).
Gilded Flicker (tenebrosus)
SCI Name: Colaptes chrysoides tenebrosus
tenebrosa / tenebrosus
L. tenebrosus dark, gloomy < tenebrae darkness.
● ex “Petit Coucou noir de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 505 (Chelidoptera).
Gilded Flicker (brunnescens)
SCI Name: Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens
brunnescens
Mod. L. brunnescens, brunnescentis somewhat brown, brownish < brunneus brown < Med. L. brunius brown.
Gilded Flicker (chrysoides)
SCI Name: Colaptes chrysoides chrysoides
chrysoides
Gr. χρυσοειδης khrusoeidēs golden, like gold < χρυσος khrusos gold; -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "Geopicus (Colaptes, Sw.) chrysoïdes, Malh. ... En rédigeant le catalogue des Picidés du Muséum de Paris, je reconnus qu'un Géopic, que jusqu'ici j'avais cru être la femelle du Picus Ayresii d'Audubon (Birds of America, vol. 1, p. 548), devait constituer une espèce différente, très-voisine de celle-ci et de l'Auratus." (Malherbe 1852) (Colaptes).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)