Streak-capped Treehunter

SCI Name:  Thripadectes virgaticeps
Protonym:  Thripadectes virgaticeps Ann.Lyc.Nat.Hist.N.Y. 10 p.398,399
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Thripadectes
Taxonomy Code:  stctre1
Type Locality:  Quito, Ecuador.
Author:  Lawrence
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

THRIPADECTES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Flammulated Treehunter T. flammulatus) Gr. θριψ thrips, θριπος thripos woodworm; δηκτης dēktēs biter < δακνω daknō to bite; "Genus THRIPADECTES.  958. THRIPADECTES FLAMMULATUS.  Anabates flammulatus, Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 131; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855, p. 141. Thripadectes flammulatus, Sclater, MS." (P. Sclater 1862); "Thripadectes Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 157. Type, by monotypy, Anabates flammulatus Eyton." (Peters 1951, VII, 141).
Synon. Rhopoctites.

virgaticeps
L. virgatus  striped  < virga  streak; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

SUBSPECIES

Streak-capped Treehunter (sclateri)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps sclateri
sclateri
● Dr Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913) English ornithologist, collector (subsp. Apalis cinerea, subsp. Asthenes wyatti, subsp. Attila spadiceus, Cacicus, syn. Campephilus gayaquilensis, subsp. Camptostoma obsoletum, syn. Casuarius casuarius, subsp. Cercomacra cinerascens, subsp. Chaetura cinereiventris, Chasiempis, subsp. Colinus leucopogon, syn. Crax fasciolata, syn. Cyanocorax affinis, Doliornis, Eudyptes, Euphonia (ex Bonaparte MS), subsp. Forpus modestus, subsp. Guttera verreauxi, syn. Heliomaster longirostris, subsp. Hirundinea ferruginea, subsp. Icterus pustulatus, Knipolegus, Lophophorus, Loriculus, subsp. Loxigilla noctis, Meliarchus, subsp. Monasa morphoeus, subsp. Myiarchus oberi, Myrmotherula, Myzomela, Nonnula, syn. Penelope barbata, subsp. Penelope montagnii, syn. Penelope obscura, Pheugopedius, Phyllomyias, Picumnus, syn. Pipreola chlorolepidota, syn. Plectropterus gambensis, Poecile, Pseudocolopteryx, syn. Rufirallus fasciatus, syn. Spinus magellanicus capitalis, subsp. Tachycineta euchrysea, subsp. Tangara aurulenta, syn. Tangara cabanisi, syn. Thamnophilus amazonicus, syn. Thraupis episcopus nesophilus, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps, subsp. Todirostrum cinereum, subsp. Tolmomyias poliocephalus, Vireo, subsp. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus).
● William Lutley Sclater (1863-1944) English ornithologist (son of Dr Philip Lutley Sclater), Director of Cape Town Mus. 1896-1906 (syn. Apalis thoracica capensis, subsp. Caprimulgus climacurus, subsp. Cercotrichas leucophrys, syn. Chlidonias hybrida delalandii, syn. Cisticola galactotes amphilectus, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, subsp. Monticola rufocinereus, subsp. Neomixis striatigula, syn. Ploceus bicolor stictifrons, Spizocorys, syn. Turtur afer).

Streak-capped Treehunter (magdalenae)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps magdalenae
magdalenae / magdalenensis
● Río Magdalena, Colombia (subsp. Malacoptila panamensis, subsp. Microbates cinereiventris, subsp. Pachyramphus cinnamomeus, subsp. Thamnophilus nigriceps, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps).
● Bahía Magdalena, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Passerculus sandwichensis, syn. Rallus longirostris beldingi).
● Isla María Magdalena, Las Tres Marías Is., Mexico (subsp. Pheugopedius felix).
● Etymology undiscovered; an eponym or a toponym, but no clue is given (Wolters 1949, Beitr. Gattungssyst. Vögel, 13) (OD per Martin Schneider) (syn. Serinus mozambicus barbatus).
● Llanos de Magdalena, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Thryomanes bewickii).

Streak-capped Treehunter (klagesi)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps klagesi
klagesi
Samuel Milton Klages (1875-1957) US collector in tropical America 1898-1926 (Drymophila, subsp. Lophornis verreauxii, Myrmotherula, subsp. Taeniotriccus andrei, subsp. Thripadectes virgaticeps, subsp. Tolmomyias poliocephalus).

Streak-capped Treehunter (tachirensis)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps tachirensis
tachirae / tachirensis
Táchira, Venezuela.

Streak-capped Treehunter (virgaticeps)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps virgaticeps
virgaticeps
L. virgatus  striped  < virga  streak; -ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Streak-capped Treehunter (sumaco)
SCI Name: Thripadectes virgaticeps sumaco
sumaco
Volcán Sumaco, Napo, eastern Ecuador.