Painted Parakeet

SCI Name:  Pyrrhura picta
Protonym:  Psittacus pictus Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.75
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Pyrrhura
Taxonomy Code:  paipar1
Type Locality:  Cayenne.
Author:  Statius Muller
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PYRRHURA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Maroon-bellied Parakeet P. frontalis) Gr. πυρρος purrhos  red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; ουρα oura  tail (cf. specific name Microsittace pyrrhura Bonaparte, 1854 (= syn. Pyrrhura molinae)); "Subfam. 2. Conurinae.  ...   14. Pyrrhura, Bp.   34. vittata, Shaw. (undulata, Ill.  fasciata? Spix.)   35. devillii, Mass.   36. molinae, Mass. (phonicura, Licht.  pyrrhura, Reich.)   37. beryllina, Souanc.   38. melanura, Spix.   39. leucotis, Kuhl.   40. calliptera, Mass.   41. versicolor, Gm. (cyanoptera, Bodd.  anaca, Wagl.)  ?squamata, Lath.   42. luciani, Deville.   43. cruentata, Wied. (squamosus? Kuhl, nec Auct.  erythrogaster, Shaw.  cyanogularis, Spix.)   44. rupicola, Tschudi.   45. chiripepe, Vieill. ex Azara.   46. chlorogenys, Wagl. (perlatus, faem. Spix.)   47. lepida, Wagl (perlatus, mas. Spix.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Pyrrhura Bonaparte, Naumannia, 6, 1856, Consp. Psitt. in Beilage no. 1, genus 14. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus vittatus Shaw (not of Boddaert) = Psittacus frontalis Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 194). Many parrots in this group have maroon or red tails.

pyrrhura
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

picta
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint.
● ex “Painted Duck” of Cook 1777, and “Painted Goose” of Latham 1785 (Chloephaga).
● ex "Todier de Juida" of d'Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 783, fig. 1, and "Todier bleu à ventre orangé" of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Ispidina).
● ex “Todier bleu à ventre orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Blue Tody” of Latham 1782 (syn. Ispidina picta).
● ex “Anaca” of Marcgrave 1648, and “Perruche à gorge tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 144 (Pyrrhura).

SUBSPECIES

Painted Parakeet (Painted)
SCI Name: Pyrrhura picta picta
picta
L. pictus  painted  < pingere  to paint.
● ex “Painted Duck” of Cook 1777, and “Painted Goose” of Latham 1785 (Chloephaga).
● ex "Todier de Juida" of d'Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 783, fig. 1, and "Todier bleu à ventre orangé" of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Ispidina).
● ex “Todier bleu à ventre orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Blue Tody” of Latham 1782 (syn. Ispidina picta).
● ex “Anaca” of Marcgrave 1648, and “Perruche à gorge tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 144 (Pyrrhura).

Painted Parakeet (Venezuelan)
SCI Name: Pyrrhura picta emma
emma / emmae
● Emma Karoline Wilhelmine von Bülow Gräfin von Berlepsch (1855-1937) wife of German ornithologist Hans Graf von Berlepsch (subsp. Aglaiocercus kingii, syn. Touit stictopterus).
● Emma Jabouille (fl. 1927) wife of French colonial administrator Pierre Jabouille in Indochina (subsp. Leptocoma brasiliana).
● Emma Salvadori née Jourdan (1846-1928) wife of Alfredo Salvadori and sister-in-law of Count Salvadori (Pyrrhura).
● Female eponym; perhaps after Emma Emilie Hartlaub (b. 1860) daughter of German ornithologist Carl Johan Gustav Hartlaub (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.), or a lapsus for emini (Hartlaub 1890, Journ. für Ornith., ser. 4, 18 (190), 152) (syn. Saxicola torquatus axillaris).

Painted Parakeet (Sinu)
SCI Name: Pyrrhura picta subandina
subandina / subandinus
L. sub at the foot of; Mod. L. Andinum Andean.

Painted Parakeet (Todd's)
SCI Name: Pyrrhura picta caeruleiceps
caeruleiceps
L. caeruleus  blue; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Painted Parakeet (Azuero)
SCI Name: Pyrrhura picta eisenmanni
eisenmanni
Eugene Eisenmann (1906-1981) US/Panamanian ornithologist, nomenclaturist (Coeligena, subsp. Panterpe insignis, Pheugopedius, subsp. Picumnus olivaceus, Pyrrhura, subsp. Sicalis luteola, subsp. Tachybaptus dominicus).