Line-fronted Canastero

SCI Name:  Asthenes urubambensis
Protonym:  Siptornis urubambensis Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 41 p.328
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Asthenes
Taxonomy Code:  lifcan1
Type Locality:  Machu Picchu, 14,000 feet, Peru.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1919
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

ASTHENES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Sharp-billed Canastero A. pyrrholeuca sordida) Gr. ασθενης asthenēs  insignificant (an epithet of the bird βουδυτης boudutēs, now associated with the Yellow Wagtail, but formerly variously identified)  < negative prefix α- a- ; σθενος sthenos  power; "LXXXVII. Asthenes RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel vollkommen gerade und spitz, Schwanzfedern gesteigert, verschmälert und abgerundet. Kleid einfarbig ungefleckt. — Den Drosselrohrsänger, Junco arundinaceus, hier deutlich repräsentirend.    374. A. sordida (Synall. — LESS. Rev. 1839. 105.) RCHB. t. DXX. 3606.   ...   375. A. brunnea (Synall. — GOULD Beagle 78.6.) RCHB.   ...   376. A. striaticollis (Anumbius — D'ORBG. LAFR. syn. Voy. p. 255.) RCHB.   ...   377. A. rubra (Anumbius ruber D'ORBG. LAFR.) RCHB.   ...   378. A. aradoides (Anabates — LAFR. Mag. Zool. 1832. t. 8.) RCHB. t. DXXVII. 2642." (Reichenbach 1853); "Asthenes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 168. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis sordida Lesson (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 103).
Var. Astheres.
Synon. Eusiptornoides, Oreophylax, Pseudosiptornis, Schizoeaca, Siptornoides.

urubambae / urubambensis
Río Urubamba, Peru.

SUBSPECIES

Line-fronted Canastero (huallagae)
SCI Name: Asthenes urubambensis huallagae
huallagae
Río Huallaga, Libertád/San Martín, Peru.

Line-fronted Canastero (urubambensis)
SCI Name: Asthenes urubambensis urubambensis
urubambae / urubambensis
Río Urubamba, Peru.