Rufous-crowned Eremomela / Eremomela badiceps
WBN 
Rufous-crowned Eremomela
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvia badiceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.144
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Eremomela
Taxonomy Code: rucere1
Type Locality: Clarence (= Malabo), Fernando Po.
Author: Fraser
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EREMOMELA
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Eremomela E. icteropygialis) Gr. ερημος erēmos desert; μελος melos song, melody; "23. Eremomela (n. g.) flaviventris ("Sylvia flaviventris Burch." Wahlb.) in schedulis ... Hab. in Caffraria superiore, campestri et sylvatica. Char. generis. Ala mediocris, vix fornicata, pennis 1—3 gradatis, prima brevi; 3=4. Rostrum subulatum, acutum, vix incisum (fere Sylviæ trochili), vibrissis obsoletis; naribus Sylviæ. Tarsi scutati; digiti laterales æquales. Cauda brevior, leviter emarginata, pennis angustioribus.— Sp. inter Sylvias et Zosteropes mediæ; similes Acanthizis, sed minus pictæ. A Phyllopneustis præcipue differunt vibrissis vix ullis, rostro acutiore, cauda breviore, linea superciliari non distincta, vel saltem non flava. Radices nominis: Eρημος, desertum; μελος, carmen, hinc Eremomela, deserti cantor." (Sundevall 1850); "Eremomela Sundevall, 1850, Öfversigt K. Vetenskaps-Akad. Förhandlingar, Stockholm, 7, p. 102. Type, by original designation, Sylvia flaviventris Burchell [1822 nec Sylvia flaviventris Vieillot, 1817] = Sylvietta icteropygialis Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 196).
Var. Erenomela.
Synon. Baeoscelis, Dryodromas, Eremomeloides, Magalilais, Tricholais.
badiceps
L. badius chestnut-coloured, brown; -ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
SUBSPECIES
Rufous-crowned Eremomela (fantiensis)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps fantiensis
fantensis / fantiensis / fantisiensis
Fanti or Fantee, Gold Coast / Ghana.
Rufous-crowned Eremomela (badiceps)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps badiceps
badiceps
L. badius chestnut-coloured, brown; -ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
Rufous-crowned Eremomela (latukae)
SCI Name: Eremomela badiceps latukae
latukae
Latuka, a people of the southern Sudan.
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)
