Papuan Pitta

SCI Name:  Erythropitta macklotii
Protonym:  Pitta Macklotii Pl.Col. livr.92 pl.547
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae / Erythropitta
Taxonomy Code:  pappit1
Type Locality:  Lobo, Triton Bay, southwestern New Guinea.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1834
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ERYTHROPITTA
(Pittidae; † Macklot's Pitta E. macklotii) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; genus Pitta Vieillot, 1816, pitta; "They are characterized by the unpatterned face and throat; breast band distinct from belly patch; belly all red; and no prominent turquoise shoulder patch" (Beehler & Pratt 2016); "Erythropitta, Bp. — 187. mackloti, Temm. — 188. celebensis, Forst. — 189. erythrogastra, Cuv. — 190. venusta, Mull. — 191. granatina, Temm. (coccinea, Eyt.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Erythropitta Bonaparte, 1854, Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum, p. 7.  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 144 (Appendix)), Pitta macklotii Temminck, 1834." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Monilipitta, Phoeniocichla, Purpureipitta.

mackloti / macklotii
Dr Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799-1832) German naturalist, taxidermist, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1826-1832 (Apalharpactes, syn. Dicaeum maugei, Erythropitta, syn. Mulleripicus pulverulentus).

SUBSPECIES

Papuan Pitta (habenichti)
SCI Name: Erythropitta macklotii habenichti
habenichti
Capt. Heinrich Georg Klemens Richard Habenicht (1874-1944) German Navy, on survey vessel Planet in German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Palau 1907-1914, captured and imprisoned in Russia 1914-1918 (subsp. Erythropitta macklotii).

Papuan Pitta (macklotii)
SCI Name: Erythropitta macklotii macklotii
mackloti / macklotii
Dr Heinrich Christian Macklot (1799-1832) German naturalist, taxidermist, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1826-1832 (Apalharpactes, syn. Dicaeum maugei, Erythropitta, syn. Mulleripicus pulverulentus).

Papuan Pitta (loriae)
SCI Name: Erythropitta macklotii loriae
loriae
Dr Lamberto Loria (1855-1913) Italian ethnologist, explorer, collector in New Guinea (syn. Aegotheles wallacii, syn. Casuarius bennetti, Cnemophilus (cf. “presumably in honour of the wife of the discoverer Dr Lamberto Loria” (Frith & Beehler 1998)), subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, subsp. Ptilorrhoa leucosticta).

Papuan Pitta (finschii)
SCI Name: Erythropitta macklotii finschii
finschii
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Alophoixus, Ducula, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, syn. Microcarbo melanoleucos brevirostris, Micropsitta, Oenanthe, syn. Pachycephala citreogaster, Psittacula, subsp. Rhipidura isura, syn. Tauraco schuettii emini, Zosterops) (see finschi).

Papuan Pitta (digglesi)
SCI Name: Erythropitta macklotii digglesi
digglesi
Silvester Diggles (1817-1880) English naturalist, emigrated to Australia 1853, entomologist, explorer (subsp. Erythropitta macklotii).