Greencap Eremomela

SCI Name:  Eremomela scotops
Protonym:  Eremomela scotops Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.103
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Eremomela
Taxonomy Code:  greere1
Type Locality:  'in Caffraria superiori.'' Type, in Riksmuseet, Stockholm, from Mohapoani, Witfontein Berge, western Transvaal, fide Gyldenstolpe, 1934, Ibis, p. 291.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EREMOMELA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Eremomela E. icteropygialis) Gr. ερημος erēmos  desert; μελος melos  song, melody; "23. Eremomela (n. g.) flaviventris ("Sylvia flaviventris Burch." Wahlb.) in schedulis   ...   Hab. in Caffraria superiore, campestri et sylvatica.   Char. generis.  Ala mediocris, vix fornicata, pennis 1—3 gradatis, prima brevi; 3=4.  Rostrum subulatum, acutum, vix incisum (fere Sylviæ trochili), vibrissis obsoletis; naribus Sylviæ.  Tarsi scutati; digiti laterales æquales.  Cauda brevior, leviter emarginata, pennis angustioribus.— Sp. inter Sylvias et Zosteropes mediæ; similes Acanthizis, sed minus pictæ.  A Phyllopneustis præcipue differunt vibrissis vix ullis, rostro acutiore, cauda breviore, linea superciliari non distincta, vel saltem non flava.  Radices nominis: Eρημος, desertum; μελος, carmen, hinc Eremomela, deserti cantor." (Sundevall 1850); "Eremomela Sundevall, 1850, Öfversigt K. Vetenskaps-Akad. Förhandlingar, Stockholm, 7, p. 102. Type, by original designation, Sylvia flaviventris Burchell [1822 nec Sylvia flaviventris Vieillot, 1817] = Sylvietta icteropygialis Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 196).   
Var. Erenomela.   
Synon. Baeoscelis, Dryodromas, Eremomeloides, Magalilais, Tricholais.

scotops
Gr. σκοτος skotos  darkness; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, countenance.

SUBSPECIES

Greencap Eremomela (pulchra)
SCI Name: Eremomela scotops pulchra
pulchra
L. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Rufous-headed Rail” of Latham, 1824 (Sarothrura).

Greencap Eremomela (congensis)
SCI Name: Eremomela scotops congensis
congensis
Congo or Belgian Congo / DR Congo.

Greencap Eremomela (citriniceps)
SCI Name: Eremomela scotops citriniceps
citriniceps
Med. L. citrinus  yellow, citrine  < L. citrus  citron, citrus; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Greencap Eremomela (kikuyuensis)
SCI Name: Eremomela scotops kikuyuensis
kikuyensis / kikuyuensis / kikuyuensisi
Kikuyuland, named after the Kikuyu or Agikuyu peoples, Kenya.

Greencap Eremomela (scotops)
SCI Name: Eremomela scotops scotops
scotops
Gr. σκοτος skotos  darkness; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, countenance.