Thicket Antpitta

SCI Name:  Hylopezus dives
Protonym:  Grallaria dives Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1864) (1864), Pt3 p.582
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Grallariidae / Hylopezus
Taxonomy Code:  thiant1
Type Locality:  Tucurriqui, Costa Rica.
Author:  Salvin
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYLOPEZUS
(Grallariidae; † Streak-chested Antpitta H. perspicillatus) Gr ὑλη hulē  woodland, forest; πεζος pezos  walking  < πατεω pateō  to walk; "Hylopezus gen. nov. ... Related to Grallaria Vieillot but nasal fossæ longer and narrower ... nostrils more linear and separated from frontal feathering by naked integument; much weaker and more slender (nearly terete) bill, etc.  Type.- Grallaria perspicillata Lawrence.  ('Yλη, a wood, forest; πεζος, walking.)" (Ridgway 1909); "Hylopezus RIDGWAY, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 21, 1909, p. 71 (type [by original designation] Grallaria perspicillata LAWRENCE)." (Hellmayr, 1924, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. III, 334).
Var. Hylopezas.

DIVES
(Icteridae; † Melodious Blackbird D. dives) Specific name Icterus dives Deppe, 1830; "42. [Icterus] Dives Lichtenst.  Glänzend schwarz.  Thlr. 2" (Deppe 1830 per Cabanis 1863); "3. Dives.  3. SCOLECOPHAGUS DIVES, (Bonaparte).  Lampropsar dives, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 425 (1850).  ...  Black, with a weak greenish lustre in the entire plumage" (Cassin 1867); "Dives Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18, p. 413, Dec., 1866—type, by tautonymy, Icterus dives Lichtenstein." (Hellmayr, 1937, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. X, 96); "Dives W. Deppe. 1830, Preis-Verz. Saüg., Vögel, etc., Mexico, p. 1.  Type, by tautonymy, Icterus dives W. Deppe." (Blake in Peters, 1968, XIV, 186); "DIVES Cassin, 1867  M— Lampropsar dives Bonaparte, 1850; type by tautonymy = Icterus dives Deppe, 1830" (Dickinson and Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 377).

dives
L. dives, divitis  rich, costly, sumptuous, splendid.

SUBSPECIES

Thicket Antpitta (dives)
SCI Name: Hylopezus dives dives
DIVES
(Icteridae; † Melodious Blackbird D. dives) Specific name Icterus dives Deppe, 1830; "42. [Icterus] Dives Lichtenst.  Glänzend schwarz.  Thlr. 2" (Deppe 1830 per Cabanis 1863); "3. Dives.  3. SCOLECOPHAGUS DIVES, (Bonaparte).  Lampropsar dives, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 425 (1850).  ...  Black, with a weak greenish lustre in the entire plumage" (Cassin 1867); "Dives Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18, p. 413, Dec., 1866—type, by tautonymy, Icterus dives Lichtenstein." (Hellmayr, 1937, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. X, 96); "Dives W. Deppe. 1830, Preis-Verz. Saüg., Vögel, etc., Mexico, p. 1.  Type, by tautonymy, Icterus dives W. Deppe." (Blake in Peters, 1968, XIV, 186); "DIVES Cassin, 1867  M— Lampropsar dives Bonaparte, 1850; type by tautonymy = Icterus dives Deppe, 1830" (Dickinson and Christidis (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2014, 2 (Passerines), p. 377).

Thicket Antpitta (flammulatus)
SCI Name: Hylopezus dives flammulatus
flammulata / flammulatus
Mod. L. flammulatus  flammulated, with flame-like markings, ruddy  < L. flammula  little flame  < dim. flamma  flame  < flagrare  to burn.

Thicket Antpitta (barbacoae)
SCI Name: Hylopezus dives barbacoae
barbacoae
Barbacoas, Nariño, south-western Colombia.