Rufous Mourner

SCI Name:  Rhytipterna holerythra
Protonym:  Lipaugus holerythrus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(28)2 p.300
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Rhytipterna
Taxonomy Code:  rufmou1
Type Locality:  Choctum, Verapaz, Guatemala.
Author:  Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RHYTIPTERNA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Greyish Mourner R. simplex) Gr. ῥυτις rhutis, ῥυτιδος rhutidos  wrinkle; πτερνα pterna  heel; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXV, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, shows the corrugations on the upper hinder part of the tarsus later commented on by Sharpe 1888; "Rhytipterna Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Tyrannus calcaratus Swainson = Muscicapa simplex Lichtenstein." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 191).

holerythra
Gr. ὁλος holos complete, entire; ερυθρος eruthros red.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous Mourner (holerythra)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna holerythra holerythra
holerythra
Gr. ὁλος holos complete, entire; ερυθρος eruthros red.

Rufous Mourner (rosenbergi)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna holerythra rosenbergi
rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).