Green-capped Tanager / Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei
WBN 
Green-capped Tanager
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tangara meyerdeschauenseei WilsonBull. 97 p.413-420
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Stilpnia
Taxonomy Code: grctan1
Type Locality:
Author: Schulenberg & Binford
Publish Year: 1985
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
Stilpnia
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Black-headed Tanager T. cyanoptera) Gr. στιλπνος stilpnos glistening, glittering < στιλπνοω stilpnoō to polish; "32. Stilpnia, new genus (Fig. 5). Type species. Aglaia cyanoptera Swainson, 1834 (currently recognized as Tangara cyanoptera). ... Etymology. The name, feminine in gender, is derived from the Greek στιλπνη, the feminine form of the adjective meaning "glittering" or "glistening," alluding to the glossiness of the plumage of these colorful tanagers. Comments. Euschemon Sclater, 1851 (type species Tanagra flava Gmelin, 1789, currently Tangara cayana flava), is preoccupied by Euschemon Doubleday, 1846, the name of an Australian butterfly, and so not available" (Burns et al. 2016) (OD per Richard Klim).
meyerdeschauenseei
Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901-1984) Swiss/US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Rallus limicola, Tangara).
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)
