Shining Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Myiagra alecto
Protonym:  Drymophila alecto Pl.Col. livr.72 pl.430 fig.1,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code:  shifly1
Type Locality:  'Celebes''; error: Ternate, Moluccas, fide Rothschild and Hartert, 1918, Novit. Zool., 25, pp. 315-316.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIAGRA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Leaden Flycatcher M. rubecula) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; αγρευω agreuō  to catch (cf. μυιαγρος muiagros  fly-catcher; myth. Myiagros, the Fly-catcher, an Elean god invoked against flies); "Genus. MYIÄGRA*.  Rostrum rectum, subbreve, depressum, basi latum, multo latius quam altum; mandibula superiore emarginata; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, setis plumulisque fere obtectis; rictu vibrissis fortibus hirsuto.  Alæ mediocres subrotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda duplo fere longiore, tertia quarta et quinta fere æqualibus longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, lata, æqualis aut interdum subfurcata.  Pedes graciles, mediocres; acrotarsiis scutellatis, scutorum suturis vix decernendis.  ...  1. RUBECULOIDES.  ...  2. PLUMBEA.  ...  3. MACROPTERA.  ...  Mr. Caley informs us that the boys of the colony used to call it Winter, the reason of which he does not give.  ...   *Mυια musca, and αγρευω venor." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 250. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Grau, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 32), Myiagra rubeculoides Vigors and Horsfield = Todus rubecula Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 516). 
Synon. Lophomyiagra, Mastersornis, Piezorhynchus, Platygnathus, Seisura, Submyiagra.

alecto
Gr. myth. Alecto or Allecto, one of the three Furies, Erinyes or Eumenides, usually represented clad in black, her head wreathed with serpents, and breathing pestilence, war and vengeance.  Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone were the spirits of vengeance who dwelt in hell, avenging crimes and tormenting criminals. Nemesis was sometimes included in their number (syn. Bubalornis albirostris, subsp. Melloria quoyi, Myiagra, syn. Probosciger aterrimus goliath).

Alecto
(Ploceidae; syn. Bubalornis † White-billed Buffalo Weaver B. albirostris) Specific name Textor alecto Temminck, 1828 (= syn. Bubalornis albirostris) (see Textor); "CLXXVIII.e   Genre. ALECTO; Alecto, Less.  Textor, Temm.  ... TISSERIN ALECTO; Textor alecto, Temm., pl. 446.  De Galam.   A plumage entièrement brun-noir." (Lesson 1831); "Alecto Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornithologie, p. 433.  Type, by monotypy, Textor alecto Temminck, 1828 = Coccothraustes albirostris Vieillot, 1817." (JAJ 2020).

SUBSPECIES

Shining Flycatcher (alecto)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto alecto
alecto
Gr. myth. Alecto or Allecto, one of the three Furies, Erinyes or Eumenides, usually represented clad in black, her head wreathed with serpents, and breathing pestilence, war and vengeance.  Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone were the spirits of vengeance who dwelt in hell, avenging crimes and tormenting criminals. Nemesis was sometimes included in their number (syn. Bubalornis albirostris, subsp. Melloria quoyi, Myiagra, syn. Probosciger aterrimus goliath).

Shining Flycatcher (longirostris)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto longirostris
longirostris
L. longus  long; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak. Var. Longirostra.
● ex “Long-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡Acrocephalus).
● ex “Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinée” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Aptenodytes patagonicus).
● ex “Troupiale” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 532 (syn. Icterus icterus).
● ex “Grimpar Nasican” of Levaillant 1807 (Nasica).
● ex “Râle à long bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 849, and “Long-billed Rail” of Latham 1785 (Rallus).

Shining Flycatcher (chalybeocephala)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto chalybeocephala
chalybeocephala / chalybeocephalus
Gr. χαλυβηιος khalubēios steely < χαλυψ khalups, χαλυβος khalubos steel; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.

Shining Flycatcher (manumudari)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto manumudari
manumudari
Manumudar I. (= Vulcan I. = Manam I.), north-eastern New Guinea.

Shining Flycatcher (wardelli)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto wardelli
wardelli
Dr Wardell (fl. 1911) English physician, naturalist (subsp. Myiagra alecto).

Shining Flycatcher (lucida)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto lucida
lucida
L. lucidus clear, bright < lux, lucis light.

Shining Flycatcher (melvillensis)
SCI Name: Myiagra alecto melvillensis
melvillense / melvillensis / melvilli
Melville I., Northern Territory, Australia.