Mountain Velvetbreast

SCI Name:  Lafresnaya lafresnayi
Protonym:  Trochilus La Fresnayi Rev.Zool. 3 p.8
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lafresnaya
Taxonomy Code:  mouvel1
Type Locality:  Bogota, Colombia.
Author:  Boissonneau
Publish Year:  1840
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LAFRESNAYA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Mountain Velvetbreast L. lafresnayi) Noël Frédéric Armand Baron André de La Fresnaye (1783-1861) French ornithologist (cf. specific name Trochilus lafresnayi Boissonneau, 1840); "*150. Lafresnaya, Bp. (Calothorax, p. Gr.)   Amer. trop.  3.   1. TROCHILUS LAFRESNAYI, Boiss. (flavicaudatus, Fraser. Calothorax lafresnayi, Gr.) Rev. Zool. 1848. p. 8.  Species vix a sequenti distincta.   2. TROCHILUS gayi, Bourc. Ann. Sc. Lyon, 1846.   3. TROCHILUS saulae, Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, ex Quito." (Bonaparte 1850); "Lafresnaya Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, Mar. 1850, p. 68. Type, by virtual tautonymy, Trochilus lafresnayi Boissoneau." (Peters 1945, V, 97).  
Var. Lafrcsnaya.
Synon. Entima, Euclosia.

lafresnayana / lafresnayanus / lafresnayei / lafresnayi / lafresnayii
Noël Frédéric Armand Baron André de La Fresnaye (1783-1861) French ornithologist, collector (Aegithina, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, syn. Catamenia analis analoides, syn. Centropus toulou, subsp. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, subsp. Dendropicos fuscescens, Diglossa, ‡Gallirallus, syn. Knipolegus nigerrimus, Lafresnaya, subsp. Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger, Merops, syn. Myrmotherula axillaris, Picumnus, syn. Sporophila collaris melanocephala, syn. Strophocincla cachinnans, syn. Xenopirostris xenopirostris).

SUBSPECIES

Mountain Velvetbreast (liriope)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi liriope
liriope
Gr. myth. Liriope, a fountain-nymph and mother to Narcissus (subsp. Lafresnaya lafresnayi).

Mountain Velvetbreast (greenewalti)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi greenewalti
greenewalti
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (1902-1993) US chemical engineer, business executive, President of DuPont Corporation 1948-1962, conservationist, pioneer high-speed photographer (syn. Colibri delphinae, subsp. Lafresnaya lafresnayi).

Mountain Velvetbreast (lafresnayi)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi lafresnayi
lafresnayana / lafresnayanus / lafresnayei / lafresnayi / lafresnayii
Noël Frédéric Armand Baron André de La Fresnaye (1783-1861) French ornithologist, collector (Aegithina, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, syn. Catamenia analis analoides, syn. Centropus toulou, subsp. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, subsp. Dendropicos fuscescens, Diglossa, ‡Gallirallus, syn. Knipolegus nigerrimus, Lafresnaya, subsp. Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger, Merops, syn. Myrmotherula axillaris, Picumnus, syn. Sporophila collaris melanocephala, syn. Strophocincla cachinnans, syn. Xenopirostris xenopirostris).

Mountain Velvetbreast (tamae)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi tamae
tamae / tamai
El Tamá, Páramo de Tamá, Táchira, Venezuela.

Mountain Velvetbreast (saul)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi saul
saul / saulae
Jane Saul (1807-1895) British conchologist, collector (subsp. Lafresnaya lafresnayi).

Mountain Velvetbreast (rectirostris)
SCI Name: Lafresnaya lafresnayi rectirostris
rectirostra / rectirostris
L. rectus  straight  < regere  to guide; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Soui-manga à bec droit” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Anthreptes).