Rusty-belted Tapaculo

SCI Name:  Liosceles thoracicus
Protonym:  Pteroptochus thoracicus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1864) (1864), Pt3 p.609 pl.38
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Rhinocryptidae / Liosceles
Taxonomy Code:  rubtap1
Type Locality:  Salto do Girao, Rio Madeira, Brazil.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LIOSCELES
(Rhinocryptidae; Ϯ Rusty-belted Tapaculo L. thoracicus) Gr. λειος leios  smooth; σκελος skelos  shin, leg; "PTEROPTOCHUS THORACICUS, sp. nov.   ...   The tarsi are rather shorter and by no means so strong as in P. albicollis, and their anterior surface, so far as I can judge from my single specimen (the feet of which are not in very good order), nearly smooth, the divisions of the scutella being obsolete, if not imperceptible. The claws are short and curved, as in other members of the genus.  ...   On the whole, the form is subgenerically (if not generic ally) distinct, and may stand as a separate section (for which I propose the name Liosceles *) to connect Pteroptochus with Agathopus.   ...   * λειος, lævis, et σκελος, crus." (P. Sclater 1865); "Liosceles Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864 (1865), p. 610. Type, by monotypy, Pteroptochos thoracicus Sclater." (Peters 1951, VII, 280).

thoracica / thoracicus
Med. L. thoracicus  pectoral, of the chest  < Gr. θωρακικος thōrakikos  suffering in the chest  < θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breastplate.
● ex “Plastron Noir” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 123 (Apalis).
● ex “Alconcillo aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 39 (syn. Falco femoralis).

SUBSPECIES

Rusty-belted Tapaculo (dugandi)
SCI Name: Liosceles thoracicus dugandi
dugandi
Armando Dugand (1906-1971) Colombian botanist (subsp. Bucco capensis, syn. Cathartes burrovianus urubitinga, subsp. Dendroplex picus, subsp. Habia stolzmanni, Herpsilochmus, subsp. Liosceles thoracicus).

Rusty-belted Tapaculo (erithacus)
SCI Name: Liosceles thoracicus erithacus
ERITHACUS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ European Robin E. rubecula) L. erithacus  unknown small winter bird, perhaps the European Robin, that metamorphosed in the summer to another (perhaps a redstart)  < Gr. εριθακος erithakos  unknown small bird, perhaps the European Robin, the Common Redstart, or the Black Redstart; "Rouge-gorges . . .  Erithacus." (Cuvier 1800); “This generic name is first met with on the second table at the end of Cuvier’s Leçons d’Anat. Comp. 1800. It is founded on “Rouge-gorges,” a group-name in the plural. There can be little doubt that Cuvier intended to use the name for the Robin, and in a previous work (‘Tableau elementaire,’ 1798) by the same author there is a reference to the “Rouge-gorge (Motacilla rubecula).” It would perhaps be difficult to justify the use of the name under the strict application of the international rules, but it has had such a long and widespread currency that the Committee have decided to retain it in preference to Dandalus of Boie [1826] ...  which has been used by Hartert and others of late years” (BOU 1915); "Erithacus Cuvier, 1800, Leçons Anat. Comp., 1, tab. 2. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla Rubecula Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 32).   
Var. Eritacus, Erythacus.   
Synon. Dandalus, Erythaca, Ficedula, Helminthophaga, Phaeca, Rhondella, Rubecula.

Rusty-belted Tapaculo (thoracicus)
SCI Name: Liosceles thoracicus thoracicus
thoracica / thoracicus
Med. L. thoracicus  pectoral, of the chest  < Gr. θωρακικος thōrakikos  suffering in the chest  < θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breastplate.
● ex “Plastron Noir” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 123 (Apalis).
● ex “Alconcillo aplomado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 39 (syn. Falco femoralis).