Sunda Honeyeater / Lichmera lombokia
WBN 
Sunda Honeyeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Meliphaga lombokia Bull.Br.Orn.Club 46 p.60
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Lichmera
Taxonomy Code: sunhon1
Type Locality:
Author: Mathews
Publish Year: 1926
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LICHMERA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Brown Honeyeater L. indistincta ocularis) Gr. λιχμηρης likhmērēs licking with the tongue < λιχμαω likhmaō to lick, to dart with the tongue; "Gen. LICHMERA nov. gen. *) Bürstenzüngler. 633. 1. L. australasiana Nob. — Certhia australasiana Shaw. Gen. Zool. VIII. p. 226.— Certhia pyrrhoptera Lath.?— Melithreptus melanoleucus Vieill.— Meliphaga australasiana Vig. Horsf. Trans. Lin. Soc. XV. p. 313.— id. Gould B. Austr. IV. tab. 27.— Meliphaga inornata Gould. (jun.). 634. 2. L. ocularis Nob.— Glyciphila ocularis Gould Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. p. 154. id. Birds Austr. IV. tab. 31.— Gylciphila subocularis Gould. (Fem an juv.). ... *) Von λιχμηρης, züngelnd, leckerhaft. Die Gruppe steht in der Bildung zwischen Meliornis und Ptilotis" (Cabanis 1853); "Lichmera Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 118. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38, p. 263), Glyciphila ocularis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 345).
Synon. Stigmatops.
lombokia
Lombok, Dutch East Indies (= Indonesia).
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)
