Pale-blue Monarch

SCI Name:  Hypothymis puella
Protonym:  Myiagra puella Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part III, Meeting of December 9, 1862 p. 340-341
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Hypothymis
Taxonomy Code:  pabmon1
Type Locality:  Sula Islands and Celebes. Type from Menado ( = Manado), northern Celebes, fide Oberholser, 1911, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 39, p. 591.
Author:  Wallace
Publish Year:  1863
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYPOTHYMIS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Black-naped Monarch H. azurea) Gr. ὑποθυμις hupothumis  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristophanes; "X. Fam. Muscicapiadae Vigors. Muscicapa Lin.   ...   Hypothymis: Musc. caerulea Vaill. Afr. pl. 153." (Boie 1826); "Hypothymis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa caerulea Gmelin = Muscicapa azurea Boddaert." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 472).
Var. Hypothimis, Hypothimus.
Synon. Camiguinia, Cyanomyias, Haplornis, Muscylva.
● (syn. Ptiliogonys Ϯ Grey Silky-flycatcher P. cinereus) "Gen. PTILOGONYS Sws. 1824. Federknie.  (Ptiliogonys et Ptiliogonatus Sws.  Hypothymis Licht nec Boie.  Lepturus Less 1838.)  334.  1. P. cinereus Sws.  ...  Hypothymis chrysorrhoëa Licht. Temm. Pl. col. 452 mas.  Hypothymis mexicana Licht. in Mus. Berol." (Cabanis 1853).

puella
L. puella  girl, maiden  < puellus  little boy  < dim. puer  boy.
● ex “Fairy Roller” of Latham 1787 (Irena).

SUBSPECIES

Pale-blue Monarch (puella)
SCI Name: Hypothymis puella puella
puella
L. puella  girl, maiden  < puellus  little boy  < dim. puer  boy.
● ex “Fairy Roller” of Latham 1787 (Irena).

Pale-blue Monarch (blasii)
SCI Name: Hypothymis puella blasii
blasii
● Prof. Dr Wilhelm August Heinrich Blasius (1845-1912) German ornithologist, Director of Brunswick Mus. 1870 (subsp. Hypothymis puella, subsp. Lonchura punctulata, Myzomela).
● Prof. Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809-1870) German zoologist, Director of Brunswick Mus. 1859 (syn. Sterna hirundo).