Rufous-winged Tanager

SCI Name:  Tangara lavinia
Protonym:  Calliste Lavinia Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 10 p.178
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  ruwtan1
Type Locality:  Isthmus of Darien, New Grenada.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1858
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara  dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum.    Le genre du Tangara (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre.  ...  ** 1. LE TANGARA.  Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).   
Var. Tanara.   
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.

lavinia
Lavinia Lydia Bowen née Davis (1820-1888) US businesswoman (co-owner of Bowen & Co. (Lithographers), Philadelphia), zoological artist, lithographer (Tangara).

Lavinia
(syn. Metallura Ϯ Fire-throated Metaltail M. eupogon) Roman myth. Lavinia, daughter of Latinus and Amatus, who gave birth in the woods to a son, Aeneas."a  Région médiane de la gorge et du cou parée d'une sorte d'escarbouche ou de gemme oblongue formée de plumes squammiformes d'un rouge cuivreux ou presque d'un rouge de feu . . .Hedwigae.   (Sous-genre Lavinia)" (Mulsant & Verreaux 1876).   Var. Lavania.

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-winged Tanager (cara)
SCI Name: Tangara lavinia cara
cara
L. carus  costly, beloved, esteemed, precious.

Rufous-winged Tanager (dalmasi)
SCI Name: Tangara lavinia dalmasi
dalmasi
Auguste Charles Raymond Guillaume Jacques Comte de Dalmas (1862-1930) French ornithologist, entomologist, explorer in yacht “Chazalie”, collector (subsp. Tangara lavinia).

Rufous-winged Tanager (lavinia)
SCI Name: Tangara lavinia lavinia
lavinia
Lavinia Lydia Bowen née Davis (1820-1888) US businesswoman (co-owner of Bowen & Co. (Lithographers), Philadelphia), zoological artist, lithographer (Tangara).