Rufous-banded Honeyeater / Conopophila albogularis
Rufous-banded Honeyeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Entomophila ? albogularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.137
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Conopophila
Taxonomy Code: rubhon2
Type Locality: Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia. Emended to albigularis.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CONOPOPHILA
(Meliphagidae; † Rufous-banded Honeyeater C. albogularis) Gr. κωνωψ kōnōps, κωνωπος kōnōpos gnat; φιλος philos lover; "The stomach was very small, but tolerably muscular, and its food consisted of insects generally" (Gilbert in Gould 1865); "LV. Conopophila RCHB. Nat. System der Vögel sppl. — An dieser Stelle die Wiederholung von Stomiopera aus der Gruppe der Gattung Ptilotis, zugleich eine Vorbildung von Dicaeum. — GOULD vermuthete bereits, daß diese beiden Arten nicht zu Entomophila gehörten, welche deshalb in ihrer Gattung fast allein steht. *273. C. albigularis (Entom. albogularis GOULD) RCHB. t. CCCCLXXXIX. 3450. ... Sein sehr kleiner Magen ist ziemlich muskulös und sein Fraß besteht meist aus Insecten. ... 274. C. rufigularis (Entomophila rufogularis GOULD) RCHB. t. CCCCLXXXIX. 3448—49." (Reichenbach 1852); "Conopophila Reichenbach, 1852, Handb. spec. Orn., Icon. Synops. Avium, abth. 2, continuatio no. IX (Meropinae), p. 119. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 24), Entomophila? albogularis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 433).
Synon. Lacustroica.
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus white; Mod. L. gularis throated, of the throat < L. gula throat.
SUBSPECIES
Rufous-banded Honeyeater (mimikae)
SCI Name: Conopophila albogularis mimikae
mimika / mimikae
Mimika River, southern New Guinea.
Rufous-banded Honeyeater (albogularis)
SCI Name: Conopophila albogularis albogularis
albogulare / albogularis
L. albus white; Mod. L. gularis throated, of the throat < L. gula throat.
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)