Rufous-winged Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola galactotes
Protonym:  Malurus galactotes Pl.Col. livr.11 pl.65 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  wincis2
Type Locality:  Nouvelle-Hollande''; error: South Africa (probably near Durban), fide Lynes, 1930, Ibis, Cisticola Suppl., p. 634; Durban, Natal, suggested by Clancey, 1964, Birds Natal Zululand, p. 373.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

galactotes
Gr. γαλα gala, γαλακτος galaktos  milk; -οτης -otēs  resembling.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-winged Cisticola (isodactylus)
SCI Name: Cisticola galactotes isodactylus
isodactyla / isodactylus
Gr. ισος isos  equal, similar; δακτυλος daktulos  toe.

Rufous-winged Cisticola (galactotes)
SCI Name: Cisticola galactotes galactotes
galactotes
Gr. γαλα gala, γαλακτος galaktos  milk; -οτης -otēs  resembling.