Lizard Buzzard

SCI Name:  Kaupifalco monogrammicus
Protonym:  Falco monogrammicus Pl.Col. livr.53 pl.314
Taxonomy:  Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Kaupifalco
Taxonomy Code:  lizbuz1
Type Locality:  Senegal.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1824
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

KAUPIFALCO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Lizard Buzzard K. monogrammicus) Portmanteau of surname Kaup (after Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist) and genus Falco Linnaeus, 1758, falcon; "e. Buteoneæ.  ...  30. KAUPIFALCO, Bp. — 87. monogrammicus, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Kaupifalco Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zoöl. (2), 6, 1854, p. 533. Type, by monotypy, Falco monogrammicus Temminck." (Peters 1931, I, 243).
Synon. Asturinula.

monogrammicus
Gr. μονος monos  single; γραμμικος grammikos  lined  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write (cf. μονογραμμος monogrammos  drawn with single lines, outlined, sketched).

SUBSPECIES

Lizard Buzzard (monogrammicus)
SCI Name: Kaupifalco monogrammicus monogrammicus
monogrammicus
Gr. μονος monos  single; γραμμικος grammikos  lined  < γραμμη grammē  line  < γραφω graphō  to write (cf. μονογραμμος monogrammos  drawn with single lines, outlined, sketched).

Lizard Buzzard (meridionalis)
SCI Name: Kaupifalco monogrammicus meridionalis
meridionale / meridionalis
L. meridionalis  southern  < meridies  south.
● Cayenne; ex “Rufous-headed Falcon” of Latham 1787 (Heterospizias).
● South Island, New Zealand; ex “Southern brown Parrot” of Latham 1781 (Nestor).
● Erroneous TL. Bahamas (= Trinidad) (syn. Trogon violaceus).