Unadorned Flycatcher / Myiophobus inornatus
WBN 
Unadorned Flycatcher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myiophobus inornatus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 83(1931) p.461
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Myiophobus
Taxonomy Code: unafly1
Type Locality: Santo Domingo (Inca Mine), 6,000 ft., Puno, Peru.
Author: Carriker
Publish Year: 1932
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYIOPHOBUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Bran-coloured Flycatcher M. fasciatus) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; φοβος phobos terror, fear, panic < φεβομαι phebomai to flee; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXVII, labelled Muscicapinae: Muscipetinae & Platyrhynchinae, clearly shows the wide, heavily-bristled bill typical of a flycatcher, and the coronal streak of this group; "Myiophobus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 67. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa ferruginea Swainson = Muscicapa fasciata Müller." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 119) (see Empidochanes).
Synon. Empidochanes, Scotomyias.
inornata / inornatum / inornatus
L. inornatus plain, unadorned < in- not; ornatus adorned, decorated < ornare to adorn.
● See: mavornata
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)
