Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant

SCI Name:  Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer
Protonym:  T[odirostrum] margaritaceiventer Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.46
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Hemitriccus
Taxonomy Code:  pvttyr1
Type Locality:  Chiquitos, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HEMITRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant H. diops) Gr. ἡμι- hēmi-  small  < ἡμισυς hēmisus  half; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "PHYLLOSCARTES   ...   In ihre Nähe würden zu stellen sein die Genera:  Hemitriccus Nob. (von ἡμι, halb und τρικκος = Todus).  (Musciphaga (!) Less. 1831).  Von Euscarthmus durch längere Flügel, stärken und breitern Schwanz und grössere Entwickelung der Bartborsten verschieden:   H. diops. — Muscicapa diops "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 144.1. — Todirostrum diops Lafr. R. Z. 1846. p. 365. 13. — Euscarthmus vilis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 490. — Muscicapa vilis Licht. in Mus. Berol. (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Hemitriccus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 52.  New name for Musciphaga Lesson, 1837, considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Hemitriscus.   
Synon. Andinotriccus, Bornscheinia, Campina, Ceratotriccus, Euscarthmornis, Idioptilon, Inambariornis, Microcochlearius, Musciphaga, Snethlagea, Todirhamphus.

margaritaceiventer
Mod. L. margaritaceus  pearled, pearly, perlated  < L. margarita  pearl  < Gr. μαργαριτης margaritēs  pearl; L. venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Tachurí pardo vientre de perla” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 172 (Hemitriccus).

SUBSPECIES

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (impiger)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer impiger
impiger / impigra
L. impiger  active, diligent  < in-  not; piger  lazy, slow  < pigere  it disgusts.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (septentrionalis)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer septentrionalis
septentrionale / septentrionales / septentrionalis / septentrionalium
L. septemtrionalis  northern  < septemtrio  north.
● Erroneous TL "Northern parts of America" (= Tonga Tabu); ex “Northern Shrike” of Latham 1781 (syn. Clytorhynchus vitiensis).

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (chiribiquetensis)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer chiribiquetensis
chiribiquetensis
Serranía de Chiribiquete, Caquetá, Colombia.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (duidae)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer duidae
duidae
Cerro Duida, Amazonas, Venezuela.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (auyantepui)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer auyantepui
auyantepui
Auyan-tepui, Bolívar, Venezuela.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (breweri)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer breweri
breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, Merops, Spizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (rufipes)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer rufipes
rufipes
Mod. L. rufipes, rufipedis  red-footed  < L. rufus  red, rufous; pes, pedis  foot  < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos  foot.

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (margaritaceiventer)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer margaritaceiventer
margaritaceiventer
Mod. L. margaritaceus  pearled, pearly, perlated  < L. margarita  pearl  < Gr. μαργαριτης margaritēs  pearl; L. venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Tachurí pardo vientre de perla” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 172 (Hemitriccus).

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant (wuchereri)
SCI Name: Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer wuchereri
wuchereri
Dr Otto Eduard Heinrich Wucherer (1820-1873) German parasitologist resident in Brazil (syn. Arremon flavirostris, subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).