Sunda Robin

SCI Name:  Myiomela diana
Protonym:  Lanius (Notodela) diana Voy.Ind.Orient.[Belanger] Zool. pt4 p.246 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Myiomela
Taxonomy Code:  sunrob1
Type Locality:  Pegu [errore = Java, vide Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 25].
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYIOMELA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ White-tailed Blue Robin M. leucura) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; μελω melō  to take an interest in; "MYIOMELA Hodgs.*   ...   *Originally established in 1845, by Mr Hodgson, under the name of Muscisylvia (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845); which word, having been previously employed, is changed to the above." (G. Gray 1846).
Synon. Muscisylvia, Notodela, Sholicola.

diana
Roman myth. Diana, the huntress, virgin goddess of the moon and the chase (Myiomela).

SUBSPECIES

Sunda Robin (Sumatran)
SCI Name: Myiomela diana sumatrana
sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia  < Sanskrit Samudra  sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).

Sunda Robin (Javan)
SCI Name: Myiomela diana diana
diana
Roman myth. Diana, the huntress, virgin goddess of the moon and the chase (Myiomela).