Slender-tailed Woodstar / Microstilbon burmeisteri
WBN 
Slender-tailed Woodstar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chaetocercus burmeisteri Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1887) (1887), Pt4 p.639
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Microstilbon
Taxonomy Code: sltwoo1
Type Locality: Valle del Taff, Tucuman, Argentina.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1888
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MICROSTILBON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Slender-tailed Woodstar M. burmeisteri) Gr. μικρος mikros small; στιλβων stilbōn, στιλβοντος stilbontos glittering, epithet for the planet Mercury < στιλβω stilbō to glitter; "Microstilbon genus novum. With the size and general characters of Chætocercus Gray, but tail of male very different, the two outer rectrices elongated (almost as long as the body), slightly expanded at the tips. Type Microstilbon insperatus sp. nov." (Todd 1913); "Microstilbon Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 26, 1913, p. 174. Type, by original designation, Microstilbon insperatus Todd = Chaetocercus burmeisteri Sclater." (Peters 1945, V, 133).
burmeisteri
Prof. Dr Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (1807-1892) German zoologist, entomologist based in Argentina 1861-1892, explorer and collector in Brazil 1850-1852 and Argentina 1857-1860 (Chunga, syn. Geositta rufipennis, Microstilbon, Phyllomyias, subsp. Suiriri suiriri).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
