Orange-crested Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiophobus phoenicomitra
Protonym:  Myiobius phoenicomitra Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.91
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiophobus
Taxonomy Code:  orcfly1
Type Locality:  [Hacienda] Mapoto, Tungurahua, Ecuador.
Author:  Taczanowski & von Berlepsch
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIOPHOBUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Bran-coloured Flycatcher M. fasciatus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; φοβος phobos  terror, fear, panic  < φεβομαι phebomai  to flee; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVII, labelled Muscicapinae: Muscipetinae & Platyrhynchinae, clearly shows the wide, heavily-bristled bill typical of a flycatcher, and the coronal streak of this group; "Myiophobus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 67. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa ferruginea Swainson = Muscicapa fasciata Müller." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 119) (see Empidochanes).
Synon. Empidochanes, Scotomyias.

phoenicomitra
Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos  crimson, red; μιτρα mitra  head-band.

SUBSPECIES

Orange-crested Flycatcher (litae)
SCI Name: Myiophobus phoenicomitra litae
litae
Lita, Imbabura, northern Ecuador.

Orange-crested Flycatcher (phoenicomitra)
SCI Name: Myiophobus phoenicomitra phoenicomitra
phoenicomitra
Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos  crimson, red; μιτρα mitra  head-band.