Tufted Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Mitrephanes phaeocercus
Protonym:  Mitrephorus phaeocercus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)1 p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Mitrephanes
Taxonomy Code:  tuffly
Type Locality:  'Mexico merid. et in Guatemala''; type from Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 228.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MITREPHANES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Tufted Flycatcher M. phaeocercus) Gr. μιτρα mitra  cap, head-dress; -φανης -phanēs  -showing  < φαινω phainō  to display; "NOTE ON Mitrephanes, A NEW GENERIC NAME. — The name Mitrephorus of Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, p. 44, is preoccupied in Coleoptera by Mitrephorus, Schönh., 1837, emended Mitrophorus, Burm., 1844.  It may therefore be changed to Mitrephanes; type Mitrephanes phæocercus (Scl.); including Mitrephanes aurantiiventris (Lawr.), if not also Mitrephanes fulvifrons (Grd.), and its var. pallescens (Coues)." (Coues 1882).
Synon. Mitrephorus.

phaeocercus
Gr. φαιος phaios dusky, brown; κερκος kerkos tail.

SUBSPECIES

Tufted Flycatcher (Mexican)
SCI Name: Mitrephanes phaeocercus phaeocercus/tenuirostris
MITREPHANES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Tufted Flycatcher M. phaeocercus) Gr. μιτρα mitra  cap, head-dress; -φανης -phanēs  -showing  < φαινω phainō  to display; "NOTE ON Mitrephanes, A NEW GENERIC NAME. — The name Mitrephorus of Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, p. 44, is preoccupied in Coleoptera by Mitrephorus, Schönh., 1837, emended Mitrophorus, Burm., 1844.  It may therefore be changed to Mitrephanes; type Mitrephanes phæocercus (Scl.); including Mitrephanes aurantiiventris (Lawr.), if not also Mitrephanes fulvifrons (Grd.), and its var. pallescens (Coues)." (Coues 1882).
Synon. Mitrephorus.

Tufted Flycatcher (Costa Rican)
SCI Name: Mitrephanes phaeocercus aurantiiventris
aurantiiventer / aurantiiventris
Late Med. L. aurantius  orange-coloured  < aurantia  orange; L. venter, ventris  belly.

Tufted Flycatcher (South American)
SCI Name: Mitrephanes phaeocercus berlepschi
berlepschi
Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig Graf von Berlepsch (1850-1915) German ornithologist, collector specialising in the Neotropical avifauna (Aglaiocercus, Anthocephala, Asthenes, syn. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Ceratopipra erythrocephala, Chaetocercus, subsp. Chamaeza campanisona, subsp. Chlorostilbon lucidus (ex Chlorostilbon splendidus egregius von Berlepsch & Ihering, 1885), subsp. Colius striatus, subsp. Conopias trivirgatus, Cranioleuca, Crypturellus, Dacnis, syn. Dendrocolaptes picumnus validus, syn. Eremophila teleschowi, syn. Eriocnemis vestita, subsp. Hafferia zeledoni, syn. Heliodoxa jacula henryi, syn. Henicorhina leucophrys, Hylopezus, syn. Hylopezus macularius paraensis, Leptasthenura, subsp. Lesbia victoriae, subsp. Merganetta leucogenis, subsp. Mitrephanes phaeocercus, syn. Myiornis auricularis, subsp. Myrmoborus lugubris, subsp. Myrmotherula menetriesii, subsp. Ochthoeca fumicolor, Parotia, Patagioenas, subsp. Phaeochroa cuvierii, syn. Phaethornis syrmatophorus, subsp. Phimosus infuscatus, subsp. Polioptila dumicola, subsp. Pseudotriccus pelzelni, subsp. Pyrrhura melanura, Rhegmatorhina, syn. Sicalis olivascens, Sipia, subsp. Sphenopsis melanotis, syn. Tangara episcopus prysjonesi, subsp. Tangara nigroviridis, subsp. Thamnophilus tenuepunctatus, subsp. Tolmomyias sulphurescens, syn. Turdus albicollis spodiolaemus, subsp. Veniliornis mixtus, subsp. Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus).