Tschudi’s Nightjar / Systellura decussata
WBN 
Tschudi's Nightjar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus decussatus Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.268
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Systellura
Taxonomy Code: bawnig3
Type Locality: Peru.
Author: von Tschudi
Publish Year: 1844
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SYSTELLURA
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ Greater Band-winged Nightjar S. longirostris ruficervix) Gr. συστελλω sustellō to shorten; ουρα oura tail; "Systellura gen. nov. Type, Stenopsis ruficervix Sclater. Nearest Stenopsis, but differing in the relatively much shorter and less distinctly emarginate tail and very different style of coloration, the sexes not conspicuously different in color and the adult male with lateral rectrices not mostly white. (I would restrict Stenopsis to S. cayennensis, with, possibly, S. candicans, a species I have not been able to examine.) (Συστελλω, to abridge; ουρα, tail.)" (Ridgway 1912).
decussata / decussatus
L. decussatus decussate, marked with crosses < decussis ten (X in Roman numerals).
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)
