Siberian Blue Robin

SCI Name:  Larvivora cyane
Protonym:  Motacilla Cyane ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 3 p.697
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Larvivora
Taxonomy Code:  sibrob
Type Locality:  Dauria, between the Onon and Argu Rivers [southeast Transbaicalia] .
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LARVIVORA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Siberian Blue Robin L. cyane) Mod. L. larva  caterpillar, larvae  < L. larva  spectre, mask; L. -vorus  -eating  < vorare  to devour; "CRATEROPODINÆ.  Genus Larvivora, nobis.  Bill equal to head, subcylindric, straight and slender; at base rather broader than high, and gradually narrowed; ridge considerably keeled: upper mandible rather longer than the lower, and vaguely inclined and notched.  Rictal and nuchal hairs small and feeble.  Wings, tail, and nares as in Turdus, but the two former somewhat less developed.  Tarsi elevate, slender, nearly smooth: toes, all of them, compressed; lateral fores and hind sub-equal; exterior fore connected to the first joint.  Nails, moderately arched and rather acute.   1st Species.  L. Cyana; blue Larvivora, nobis.   ...   2nd Species.  L. Brunnea; brown Larvivora, nobis.  ...  These birds differ conspicuously from Tesia (SWAINSON'S Aipunemia?) by stronger wings and tail, by their less cylindric and less entire bill, and by their open meruline nares. They have much of the aspect of the Sylviadæ, but are essentially terrestrial. Do they not constitute the oriental type of the American Drymophilæ? and do they not serve, in a remarkable manner, to connect the Merulinæ and the Crateropodinæ?   ...   From the number of insect nests and larvæ found in their stomachs, I have called the genus Larvivora." (Hodgson 1837).
Var. Lavivora.
Synon. Icoturus, Pseudaedon.

larvivora / larvivorus
Mod. L. larva caterpillar, larvae  < L. larva  spectre, mask; L. -vorus -eating  < vorare  to devour.

cyane / cyanea
L. cyaneus  dark-blue, sea-blue, greenish-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  cyanea.  17. L. cærulea, remigibus rectricibusque nigris. Chinens. Lagerstr. 18.  Coccothraustes cæruleus. Edw. av. 125. t. 125.  Habitat in Angola." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Cyanocompsa brissonii).
● "111. TANAGRA.  ...  cyanea.  6. T. cyanea, rectricibus fuscis.  Linaria cærulea. Catesb. car. I. p. 45. t. 45. Edw. av. 2. p. 132. t. 273. f. 2.  Habitat in Carolina." (Linnaeus 1766) (Passerina).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à collier du Sénégal” (= ♂) and “Gobe-mouche à gorge rousse du Sénégal” (= ♀) of Brisson 1760 (Platysteira).
● ex “Ultramarine Roller” of Latham 1781 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Siberian Blue Robin (cyane)
SCI Name: Larvivora cyane cyane
cyane / cyanea
L. cyaneus  dark-blue, sea-blue, greenish-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy.
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  cyanea.  17. L. cærulea, remigibus rectricibusque nigris. Chinens. Lagerstr. 18.  Coccothraustes cæruleus. Edw. av. 125. t. 125.  Habitat in Angola." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Cyanocompsa brissonii).
● "111. TANAGRA.  ...  cyanea.  6. T. cyanea, rectricibus fuscis.  Linaria cærulea. Catesb. car. I. p. 45. t. 45. Edw. av. 2. p. 132. t. 273. f. 2.  Habitat in Carolina." (Linnaeus 1766) (Passerina).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à collier du Sénégal” (= ♂) and “Gobe-mouche à gorge rousse du Sénégal” (= ♀) of Brisson 1760 (Platysteira).
● ex “Ultramarine Roller” of Latham 1781 (unident.).

Siberian Blue Robin (bochaiensis)
SCI Name: Larvivora cyane bochaiensis
bochaiensis
Bokhai, a former mediaeval kingdom of Ussuriland, Far Eastern Russia, utterly destroyed by the Mongols.