White-cheeked Nuthatch / Sitta leucopsis
WBN 
White-cheeked Nuthatch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sitta leucopsis BirdsAsia[Gould] 2 pt1 pl.46,text
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: whcnut1
Type Locality: interior northwestern Himalayas.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch < Gr. σιττη sittē bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA. Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula. Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta, Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.
leucopsis
Gr. λευκος leukos white; οψις opsis face.
● ex “Canard du Maragnon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 808 (syn. Dendrocygna viduata).
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)
