Kopje Warbler

SCI Name:  Euryptila subcinnamomea
Protonym:  Drymoica subcinnamomea Ill.Zool.S.Afr. pl.111 fig.1,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Euryptila
Taxonomy Code:  kopwar1
Type Locality:  mountains of the Kamiesberg, Little Namaqualand.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EURYPTILA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Cinnamon-breasted Warbler E. subcinnamomea) Gr. ευρυς eurus  broad; πτιλον ptilon  feather; "c⁴. Tail not so strongly graduated; the outside tail-feather long and surpassing the under tail-coverts by as much as the length of the tarsus.   c⁵. Bill rather long and slender, slightly higher at nostrils than it is broad . . . .11. EURYPTILA, p. 116.   ...   11. EURYPTILA.   ...   Range. Confined to South Africa.   1. Euryptila subcinnamomea.  ...  tail rather long and slightly rounded, deep brownish red" (Sharpe 1883); "Euryptila Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, pp. 94 (in key), 116. Type, by monotypy, Drymoica subcinnamomea A. Smith." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 195).

subcinnamomea
L. sub  beneath, somewhat; Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured  < L. cinnamomum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon (cf. Mod. L. subcinnamomeus  pale cinnamon).

SUBSPECIES

Kopje Warbler (petrophila)
SCI Name: Euryptila subcinnamomea petrophila
petrophila / petrophilus
Gr. πετρα petra  rock; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

Kopje Warbler (subcinnamomea)
SCI Name: Euryptila subcinnamomea subcinnamomea
subcinnamomea
L. sub  beneath, somewhat; Mod. L. cinnamomeus  cinnamon-coloured  < L. cinnamomum  cinnamon  < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon  cinnamon (cf. Mod. L. subcinnamomeus  pale cinnamon).