Red-tailed Comet

SCI Name:  Sappho sparganurus
Protonym:  Trochilus sparganurus Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 8 pt1 p.291 pl.39
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Sappho
Taxonomy Code:  retcom1
Type Locality:  'Peru'' = Bolivia.
Author:  Shaw
Publish Year:  1812
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SAPPHO
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Comet S. sparganurus) Sappho (fl. 600BC) lyric poetess of Lesbos who gathered around her a group of friends, all of her own sex, in a cult organisation devoted to Aphrodite. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, highlights the long forked tail of these hummingbirds. "* Sappho sparganura (Tr. — us SHAW 1811.) RCHB. syst. — Bolivia.    * — phaon (Tr. — GOULD 1847.) RCHB. — Peru." (Reichenbach 1854); "Sappho Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus sparganurus Shaw. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 117).
Var. Sapho.
Synon. Cometes, Sparganura.

sparganura / sparganurus
Gr. σπαργανον sparganon  band, swaddling cloth  < σπαργω spargō  to swathe (cf. σπαργαω spargaō  to abound); -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

SUBSPECIES

Red-tailed Comet (sparganurus)
SCI Name: Sappho sparganurus sparganurus
sparganura / sparganurus
Gr. σπαργανον sparganon  band, swaddling cloth  < σπαργω spargō  to swathe (cf. σπαργαω spargaō  to abound); -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

Red-tailed Comet (sapho)
SCI Name: Sappho sparganurus sapho
sapho
Sappho (fl. 600 BC) lyric poetess of Lesbos who gathered around her a group of friends, all of her own sex, in a cult organisation devoted to Aphrodite (subsp. Sappho sparganurus).