Tufted Tit-Spinetail / Leptasthenura platensis
Tufted Tit-Spinetail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leptasthenura platensis Handb.spec.Orn. (Icon.Syn.Av.no.10) p.163 pl.DXIX fig.3597
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Leptasthenura
Taxonomy Code: tutspi1
Type Locality: Rio de la Plata.
Author: Reichenbach
Publish Year: 1853
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LEPTASTHENURA
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Plain-mantled Tit Spinetail L. aegithaloides) Gr. λεπτος leptos thin; ασθενης asthenēs weak; ουρα oura tail; "LXXIX. Leptasthenura RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel kurz, fast kegelförmig spitz (meisenartig), Schwanz langstufig und pfeilspitzig, Fahnen dicht und schiefsend, Innenfahne der seitlichen Federn sehr breit, spitzewärts bogig in die Schaftborste übergehend, Mittelfedern lang verschmälert, Fahne spitzewärts faserlos. Lauf wenig länger als Mittelzehe. — Lerchengefieder, Habitus von Aegithalus. — Buschvogel. *353. L. aegithaloides (Synall. — KITTLITZ) RCHB. t. DXIX. 3595-96. ... *354. L. platensis RCHB. t. DXIX. 3597. ... 355. L. maluroides (Synallaxe — D'ORB. voy. ois. 258. pl. XIV. f. 3) RCHB. t. DXXII. 3614. ... *356. L. humicola (Synallaxis — v. KITTLITZ Mém. prés. à l'Acad. Imp. de St. Pétersb. I. 1831. 185. t. VI.) — t. DXIX. 3600. ... 357. L. ? leucocephala (Synall. — us) D'ORBG. voy. 244. ... 358. L. flammulata RCHB. t. DXXI. 3609." (Reichenbach 1853); "Leptasthenura Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 160. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis aegithaloides Kittlitz (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters 1951, VII, 74).
Var. Leptostenura.
Synon. Bathmicercus, Bathmidura, Dendrophylax.
platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).
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)