Striated Swallow

SCI Name:  Cecropis striolata
Protonym:  Hirundo striolata Krit.Ueber.Europ. p.42
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Cecropis
Taxonomy Code:  strswa2
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Schlegel
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CECROPIS
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Greater Striped Swallow C. cucullata) Gr. Κεκροπις Kekropis  Athenian woman. Seemingly despite its generic appellation the Greater Striped Swallow breeds in southern Africa, but the epithet reflects the use of Attic place names and proper names for swallows (see Atticora); "I. Fam. Hirundinidae Vigors.  Hirundo Lin.  ...   Cecropis. Hir. capensis Gm.; rustica Gm. u.s.w." (Boie 1826); "Cecropis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, Heft 10, col. 971. Type, by subsequent designation, Hirundo capensis Gmelin = Hirundo cucullata Boddaert (Salvadori, 1881, Orn. Pap. Mol., pt. 2, p. 1)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 113).    
Var. Acropis, Cercropis.   
Synon. Baruwaia, Herophilus, Lillia, Phoenichelidon.

striolata / striolatus
Mod. L. striolatus  finely striped, lineated  < striola  fine linear marking  < L. stria  furrow.

SUBSPECIES

Striated Swallow (mayri)
SCI Name: Cecropis striolata mayri
mayri
Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (syn. Aerodramus hirundinaceus, subsp. Amblyornis macgregoriae, subsp. Athene brama, syn. Burhinus oedicnemus indicus, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, syn. Cinclosoma castanotum, subsp. Culicicapa helianthea, subsp. Ficedula westermanni, subsp. Lewinia pectoralis, subsp. Lonchura spectabilis, subsp. Megalaima virens, syn. Mixornis gularis rubicapilla, subsp. Mulleripicus funebris, syn. Phonygammus keraudrenii purpureoviolaceus, syn. Pogoniulus chrysoconus, Ptiloprora, subsp. Ptilorrhoa leucosticta, Rallicula, syn. Rhinortha chlorophaea, subsp. Roraimia adusta, subsp. Sarcophanops steerii, subsp. Tregellasia leucops, subsp. Trugon terrestris, subsp. Turnix maculosus, subsp. Zapornia pusilla).

Striated Swallow (stanfordi)
SCI Name: Cecropis striolata stanfordi
stanfordi
● Lt.-Col. John Keith Stanford (1892-1971) British Army, writer, sportsman, administrator in India and Burma 1919-1939 (subsp. Alcippe nipalensis, subsp. Cecropis daurica, syn. Pericrocotus cantonensis x P. roseus, subsp. Pomatorhinus phayrei, subsp. Pycnonotus cafer).
● Leland Stanford Junior University (commonly known as Stanford), Stanford, California, USA (syn. Catharus ustulatus).

Striated Swallow (vernayi)
SCI Name: Cecropis striolata vernayi
vernayi / verneyi
Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877-1960) English/US antiquarian, collector, sponsor, Trustee of AMNH (subsp. Alauda gulgula, subsp. Cecropis daurica, subsp. Cyornis poliogenys, subsp. Dendrocitta vagabunda, Gymnobucco, subsp. Leiothrix argentauris, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti, subsp. Rhipidura albogularis, subsp. Tephrodornis virgatus).

Striated Swallow (striolata)
SCI Name: Cecropis striolata striolata
striolata / striolatus
Mod. L. striolatus  finely striped, lineated  < striola  fine linear marking  < L. stria  furrow.