Kenrick’s Starling / Poeoptera kenricki
Kenrick's Starling
SCI Name:
Protonym: Paeoptera kenricki Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.42
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Poeoptera
Taxonomy Code: kensta1
Type Locality: Usambara Mountains, Tanganyika.
Author: Shelley
Publish Year: 1894
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
POEOPTERA
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Narrow-tailed Starling P. lugubris) Gr. φαιος phaios grey (cf. πολιος polios grey); -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; "Noticeably slender: ad ♂ is black (shows a violet sheen in good light), with creamy-yellow eyes, dull brown-grey wings, and a long narrow graduated tail. Ad ♀ is duller and greyer on the head with chestnut primaries." (Stevenson & Fanshawe 2002); "La soi-disant Muscicapa lugubris, du baron de Muller, est peut-être une des nouvelles Melænornis de Sundeval; toutefois, s'il a voulu illustrer une espèce abyssinienne que nous conservons dans le Musée de Paris, nous lui trouvons un aspect Saxicolien qui nous la fait rapprocher des genres Gervaisia, Bp., et Thamnolæa, Cab.: nous en constituons le genre Poeoptera, Bp., et nous appellerons l'espèce lugubris, qu'elle soit ou non la lugubris, Mull., Nouv. Ois. d'Afrique, I, t. 2. Atro-cyanea: remigibus interne subtusque latissime cinereo-chalybæis." (Bonaparte 1854); "Poeoptera Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend., 38, p. 381. Type, by monotypy, Poeoptera lugubris Bonaparte." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 86).
Var. Paeoptera, Poeopterus, Polioptera.
Synon. Arizelopsar, Myiopsar, Stilbopsar.
kenricki
Maj. Reginald Watkin Edward-Kenrick (fl. 1885) British Army, naturalist, collector in Kenya (Poeoptera).
SUBSPECIES
Kenrick's Starling (kenricki)
SCI Name: Poeoptera kenricki kenricki
kenricki
Maj. Reginald Watkin Edward-Kenrick (fl. 1885) British Army, naturalist, collector in Kenya (Poeoptera).
Kenrick's Starling (bensoni)
SCI Name: Poeoptera kenricki bensoni
bensoni
● Constantine Walter Benson (1909-1982) English colonial administrator, ornithologist, collector (syn. Ammomanes deserti geyri, syn. Apalis chapini strausae, syn. Apalis thoracica whitei, Calamonastides, subsp. Cinnyris fuelleborni, subsp. Cisticola chiniana, subsp. Cyanolanius comorensis, subsp. Monticola sharpei, syn. Phyllastrephus terrestris suahelicus, syn. Poeoptera kenricki, ‡Psittacula, subsp. Sheppardia gunningi).
● Rex R. Benson (fl. 1931) US collector in Panama (subsp. Basileuterus melanogenys, subsp. Catharus gracilirostris).
● Col. Harry Coupland Benson (1857-1924) US Army (subsp. Callipepla douglasii).
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)