Red-naped Trogon

SCI Name:  Harpactes kasumba
Protonym:  Trogon Kasumba Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.282
Taxonomy:  Trogoniformes / Trogonidae / Harpactes
Taxonomy Code:  rentro1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
Author:  Raffles
Publish Year:  1822
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

HARPACTES
(Trogonidae; Ϯ Malabar Trogon H. fasciatus) Gr. ἁρπακτης harpaktēs  robber  < ἁρπαζω harpazō  to rob; alluding to the heavy bodies and strong, deeply notched bills of these oriental trogons; "SUB-GENERA.  ...  3. Bill entire. Inhabits tropical Asia.   HARPACTES, Sw." (Swainson 1833); "Harpactes, Sw.  Bill stronger: both mandibles deeply notched at their tips, but the margins smooth. Nostrils partially naked. Tarsus only half feathered. The anterior toes less united.  Tropical Asia.  The conirostral type.   Malabaricus. Gould, Mon.   erythrocephalus. Ib.   Gouldii. (Sw.) P. C. 121.   Temminckii. P. Col. 321.   Duvaucellii. Ib. 291.   Diardi. Ib. 54." (Swainson 1837); "Harpactes Swainson, Zool. Illustr. (2), 3, 1832-33 (1833), p. 107 (in key). Diagnosis only, no type or included species. Species added, Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 337. Type, by subsequent designation, Trogon malabaricus Gould.²  (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 10.)   ...   ² This name is not antedated by Harpactes Templeton, Zool. Journ., 5, 1829-1834, p. 401, since the part of the Zool. Journ. containing that name was not published until Nov. or Dec. 1835." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 161).
Var. Harpactor.
Synon. Duvaucelius, Hapalurus, Oreskios, Pyrotrogon.

kasumba
Malay name Burong kesumba for a trogon  < Malay kesumba  red, red dye (Harpactes).

SUBSPECIES

Red-naped Trogon (kasumba)
SCI Name: Harpactes kasumba kasumba
kasumba
Malay name Burong kesumba for a trogon  < Malay kesumba  red, red dye (Harpactes).

Red-naped Trogon (impavidus)
SCI Name: Harpactes kasumba impavidus
impavida / impavidus
L. impavidus  fearless, undaunted  < in-  not; pavidus  fearful < pavere  to panic.