Southern Citril

SCI Name:  Crithagra hyposticta
Protonym:  Spinus citrinelloides hypostictus Vog.Afr. 3 pt1 p.275
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code:  soucit1
Type Locality:  Kilimandscharo, Grossaruscha, Ngomingi, Tembo, Rupira, Somba; type from Moshi, Kilimanjaro, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 826.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1904
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1^ma, 2^da, 3^tia, et 4^ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

hyposticta / hypostictus
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

SUBSPECIES

Southern Citril (brittoni)
SCI Name: Crithagra hyposticta brittoni
brittoni
Peter Leslie Britton (1943-2009) British educationalist, field ornithologist resident in Zambia 1964-1968, Kenya 1968-1981, and Australia 1983-2009 (subsp. Crithagra hyposticta).

Southern Citril (hyposticta)
SCI Name: Crithagra hyposticta hyposticta
hyposticta / hypostictus
Gr. ὑπο hupo  beneath; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.