Red-faced Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola erythrops
Protonym:  Drymoeca erythrops Syst.Orn.Westafr. p.58
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  refcis1
Type Locality:  Calabar, Nigeria.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1857
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye, face, countenance.

Erythrops
(Sylviidae; syn. Chrysomma † Yellow-eyed Babbler C. sinense hypoleucum) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos eye; "2. PYCTORHIS.   Erythrops, Hodgs. MSS.   Pyctoris, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24.   Chrysomma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845) . . . Type. P. sinensis" (Sharpe 1883); "Erythrops "Hodgs. MSS." = Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 510. In synonymy with Pyctoris Hodgson, i.e. Blyth. Not Erythrops Rafinesque, 1820, Pisces, nor Erythrops Sars, 1869, Crustacea." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 327).

SUBSPECIES

Red-faced Cisticola (Red-faced)
SCI Name: Cisticola erythrops [erythrops Group]
CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

Red-faced Cisticola (Lepe)
SCI Name: Cisticola erythrops lepe
lepe
Lepe (= Lepi) Mission Station, Benguela, Angola.