Greater Yellownape

SCI Name:  Chrysophlegma flavinucha
Protonym:  Picus flavinucha Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1833) (1833), Pt1 no.11 p.120
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Chrysophlegma
Taxonomy Code:  greyel1
Type Locality:  Himalayas and the lower regions of India.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1834
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOPHLEGMA
(Picidae; Ϯ Greater Yellow-nape C. flavinucha) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; φλεγμα phlegma, φλεγματος phlegmatos  heat, flame; "CHRYSOPHLEGMA FLAVINUCHA, Gould.  Yellow-naped Woodpecker.   ...   Head olive-green, washed with rufous on the forehead; occiput adorned with lengthened silky rich yellow feathers ...  primaries and inner webs of the secondaries chestnut, crossed by broad bands of, and largely tipped with, brownish black" (Gould 1850); "Chrysophlegma Gould, Bds. Asia, pt. 1, 1850, pl. [6] and text [= 6, pl. 36 of volume.] Type, by monotypy, Picus flavinucha Gould." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 130).
Synon. Brachylophus.

flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

SUBSPECIES

Greater Yellownape (flavinucha)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha flavinucha
flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

Greater Yellownape (styani)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha styani
styani
Frederick William Styan (1838-1934) English tea merchant, collector, ornithologist in China 1877-1904 (syn. Aegithina tiphia philipi, subsp. Chrysophlegma flavinucha, syn. Emberiza godlewskii omissa, subsp. Hypothymis azurea, syn. Ianthocincla cineracea cinereiceps, syn. Ianthocincla cineracea strenua, syn. Pericrocotus ethologus, subsp. Pomatorhinus ruficollis, syn. Pucrasia macrolopha darwini, subsp. Sinosuthora brunnea).

Greater Yellownape (ricketti)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha ricketti
ricketti
Charles Boughey Rickett (1851-1943) British banker, collector in the Far East (syn. Aquila heliaca, syn. Arborophila gingica, subsp. Chrysophlegma flavinucha, subsp. Leiothrix argentauris, Phylloscopus, syn. Picus canus sobrinus, subsp. Pteruthius aeralatus, subsp. Pyrrhula nipalensis, Sinosuthora, subsp. Spilornis cheela, syn. Sylviparus modestus).

Greater Yellownape (pierrei)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha pierrei
pierrei / pierrii
Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (1833-1905) French botanist, first director of Jardin Botanique de Saigon 1865-1877, explorer, collector (subsp. Chrysophlegma flavinucha).

Greater Yellownape (mystacale)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha mystacale
mystacale / mystacalis
Mod. L. mystacalis  moustached < Gr. μυσταξ mustax, μυστακος mustakos  moustache  < μασταξ mastax, μαστακος mastakos  jaws, mouth  < μασαομαι masaomai  to chew.

Greater Yellownape (korinchi)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha korinchi
korinchi
Mt. Korinchi (= Gunung Kerinci), Palembang, Sumatra.

Greater Yellownape (wrayi)
SCI Name: Chrysophlegma flavinucha wrayi
wrayi
Leonard Wray, Jr. (1852-1942) British civil servant in Malaya, Director of Museums Federated Malay States 1905-1908 (subsp. Aethopyga saturata, subsp. Brachypteryx leucophris, subsp. Chrysophlegma flavinucha, subsp. Erythrogenys hypoleucos, subsp. Heterophasia picaoides, syn. Pericrocotus solaris montanus).