Himalayan Flameback

SCI Name:  Dinopium shorii
Protonym:  Picus Shorii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.14 p.175
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Dinopium
Taxonomy Code:  himfla1
Type Locality:  Himalayas.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DINOPIUM
(Picidae; Ϯ Common Flame-back D. javanense) Gr. δεινος deinos  mighty, huge; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance; "Description de 4 nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux de l'Ile de Java, observés dans le museum de Mr. Peale à Philadelphie, Turnix javanica, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus, Hirundo longipennis et Sylvia cuneata." (Rafinesque 1814); "Dinopium Rafinesque, Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie, 1814, p. 2 of cover. Type, by monotypy, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus Rafinesque, which is based on "le picoïde à dos rouge", Bull. des Sciences de Soc. Philom., Paris, 3, 1803, p. 146 = Picus javanensis Ljungh." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 143). 
Var. Dinopicus (Gr. πικος pikos  woodpecker). 
Synon. Brachypternopicus, Brachypternus, Brahmapicus, Chloropicoides, Chrysonotus, Gauropicoides, Mesospilus, Tiga.

shorii
Hon. Frederick John Shore (1799-1837) British civil servant (East India Company) in India, naturalist (Dinopium).

SUBSPECIES

Himalayan Flameback (shorii)
SCI Name: Dinopium shorii shorii
shorii
Hon. Frederick John Shore (1799-1837) British civil servant (East India Company) in India, naturalist (Dinopium).

Himalayan Flameback (anguste)
SCI Name: Dinopium shorii anguste
angusta / anguste
L. angustus  narrow, small, short, restrained, difficult.