White-bellied Minivet / Pericrocotus erythropygius
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White-bellied Minivet
SCI Name:
Protonym: M[uscicapa] erythropygia MadrasJ.Lit.Sci. 11 p.17
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Pericrocotus
Taxonomy Code: whbmin3
Type Locality: Ajanta Hills, Aurangabad District, Hyderabad, India.
Author: Jerdon
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PERICROCOTUS
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Sunda Minivet P. miniatus) Gr. περι peri very, all around; κροκωτος krokōtos golden-yellow < κροκος krokos saffron; "VI. Fam. Sylviadae Vigors. ... Pericrocotus: Musc. miniata Tem. col. 156 u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pericrocotus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 2, (10), col. 972. Type, by original designation [?] and monotypy, Muscicapa miniata Temminck." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 207).
Var. Perierocotus, Pericrodotus.
Synon. Acis, Motacilloides, Phoenicornis.
erythropygia / erythropygium / erythropygius
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
● ex “Red-rumped Creeper” of Latham 1801 (syn. Myzomela sanguinolenta).
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)
