Red-banded Flowerpecker / Dicaeum eximium
WBN 
Red-banded Flowerpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Dicaeum eximium Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.102 pl.14 fig.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Dicaeidae / Dicaeum
Taxonomy Code: rebflo1
Type Locality: New Ireland.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DICAEUM
(Dicaeidae; Ϯ Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker D. cruentatum) Gr. δικαιον dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus, but the name probably refers to the scarab beetle Scarabaeus; "LES DICÉES. (DICÆUM. Cuv.) (3). Ne grimpent pas non plus, et n'ont pas la queue usée; leur bec aigu, arqué, pas plus long que la tête, est déprimé et élargi à sa base. Ils viennent des Indes-Orientales, sont fort petits, et portent généralement de l'écarlate dans leur plumage. ... (3) DICÆUM, nom d'un très-petit oiseau des Indes selon Ælien. A ce sous-genre appartiennent certh. erythronotos, Vieill. II, 35. Le C. cruentata, Edw. 81, en est probablement une variété d'âge. — C. rubra, Vieill. pl. 54. — C. erythropygia, Lath. 2e Supp. — C. tæniata, Sonn. IIe Voy. pl. 107, fig. 3. — C. cantillans, id. ib. 2." (Cuvier 1817); "Dicaeum Cuvier, 1817, Règne Animal., 1, p. 410. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, ed. 1, p. 13), Certhia erythronotum Gmelin = Certhia erythronotos Latham = Certhia cruentata Linnaeus." (Salomonsen in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 174).
Var. Diceaum, Diceum, Dicoeum, Decaeum.
Synon. Austrodicaeum, Bournsia, Chilociris, Chromatociris, Cryptociris, Microchelidon, Myzanthe, Pachyglossa, Phenacistes, Polisornis, Psarisoma.
eximium / eximius
L. eximius select, distinguished < eximere to take away < emere to purchase.
SUBSPECIES
Red-banded Flowerpecker (layardorum)
SCI Name: Dicaeum eximium layardorum
layardorum
Edgar Leopold Layard (1824-1900) English diplomat, civil servant, naturalist (subsp. Dicaeum eximium (ex Dicaeum sp. Layard, 1880)).
Red-banded Flowerpecker (eximium)
SCI Name: Dicaeum eximium eximium
eximium / eximius
L. eximius select, distinguished < eximere to take away < emere to purchase.
Red-banded Flowerpecker (phaeopygium)
SCI Name: Dicaeum eximium phaeopygium
phaeopygia / phaeopygium
Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
