Layard’s Woodcreeper / Lepidocolaptes layardi
Layard's Woodcreeper
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picolaptes layardi Ibis p.386 pl.14
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Lepidocolaptes
Taxonomy Code: linwoo6
Type Locality: Belem, Para, Brazil.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1873
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
LEPIDOCOLAPTES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Scaled Woodcreeper L. squamatus) Gr. λεπις lepis, λεπιδος lepidos scale, flake < λεπω lepō to peel; κολαπτης kolaptēs pecker < κολαπτω kolaptō to peck; "CV. Lepidocolaptes RCHB. "Picolaptes" Nat. Syst. t. XXXVI. ... Kleid rothbraun, Unterseite weißschuppig großfleckig. a) Weißgefleckte Arten. *432. L. squamatus (Dendrocol. — LICHST. p. 258. t. II. f. 1.) ... 433. L. Wagleri (Dendrocol. — SPIX. I. 88. 5. t. XC. f. 2) ... *434. L. leucogaster (Ziphorh. SWS. — LAFR.) ... *435. L. affinis (Picolaptes — LAFR. 1850. 275.) ... 436. L. atripes (Picolaptes — EYTON, JARD. Contrib. 1851. 76.) RCHB. ... b) Fahlgefleckte Arten. *437. L. Spixii (Picolaptes — LESSON traité 314.) RCHB. t. DXXXIII. 3664. ... 438. L. validirostris (Picolaptes — EYTON, JARD. Contrib. 1851. 75.) RCHB. ... 439. L. Souleyetii (Dendrocol. — LAFR.) RCHB. t. DXXXIV. 3667. ... 440. L. lineaticeps (Picolaptes — LAFR. Rev 1850. 277.) RCHB. ... 441. L. albolineatus (Picolaptes — LAFR. 1850. 278.) ... 442. L. notatus (Picolaptes — EYTON Contrib. 1852. 26.) RCHB." (Reichenbach 1853); "Lepidocolaptes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 183. Type, by subsequent designation, Dendrocolaptes squamatus Lichtenstein (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 29)." (Peters 1951, VII, 47).
Synon. Dacryophorus.
layardi
Edgar Leopold Layard (1824-1900) English diplomat/ civil servant in Ceylon, Cape Colony, New Caledonia and Brazil, naturalist, explorer in Melanesia (subsp. Accipiter trivirgatus, syn. Cercomela tractrac, subsp. Chalcites lucidus, syn. Chrysoena viridis, subsp. Clytorhynchus vitiensis, subsp. Coracina macei, syn. Geokichla citrina, subsp. Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus, Megapodius, subsp. Pycnonotus barbatus, Rhipidura (ex Rhipidura albogularis Layard), Sylvia, syn. Thalassarche salvini, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus) (see lyardi).
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)