Red-rumped Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe moesta
Protonym:  Saxicola moesta Verz.Doubl.Zool.Mus.Berlin p.33
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  rerwhe1
Type Locality:  Egypt [= between Bir Hamam and Gassr Eschtaebi, vide Stresemann, 1954, Abh. Deutschen Akad. Wiss., Naturwiss., Berlin, 1, p. 173].
Author:  Lichtenstein, MHC
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe.  Motacilla, Linn.  Silvia et Turdus, Lath.  Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816  F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.

oenanthe
L. oenanthe  wheatear  < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season  < οινη oinē  vine; ανθος anthos  bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ...  Oenanthe.  17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217.  Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55.  β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219.  Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54.  Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis.  Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).

moesta
L. maestus  sad, sorrowful  < maerere  to mourn.
● ex “Pepoazá iruperó” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 204 (syn. Xolmis irupero).

SUBSPECIES

Red-rumped Wheatear (moesta)
SCI Name: Oenanthe moesta moesta
moesta
L. maestus  sad, sorrowful  < maerere  to mourn.
● ex “Pepoazá iruperó” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 204 (syn. Xolmis irupero).

Red-rumped Wheatear (brooksbanki)
SCI Name: Oenanthe moesta brooksbanki
brooksbanki
George Brooksbank (1863-1934) British educationalist, assistant headmaster at Aysgarth School, Yorkshire (attended by Richard Meinertzhagen 1886-1889) (subsp. Oenanthe moesta).