White-eyed Stipplethroat

SCI Name:  Epinecrophylla leucophthalma
Protonym:  Formicivora leucophthalma Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.83,155
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Epinecrophylla
Taxonomy Code:  wheant1
Type Locality:  Salto do Girao [Rio Madeira], Brazil.
Author:  von Pelzeln
Publish Year:  1868
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EPINECROPHYLLA
(Thamnophilidae; † Stipple-throated Antwren E. haematonota) Gr. επι epi  on; νεκρος nekros  dead; φυλλον phullon  leaf; "Epinecrophylla M. L. Isler & Brumfield, new genus.  Type species. - Formicivora haematonota Sclater, 1857.  ...  The distinctive foraging specialization of Epinecrophylla species further supports their placement in a distinctive genus.  Etymology.—The feminine generic name is taken from the Greek epi (on), necro (dead) and phyllo (leaf), meaning "on the dead leaf," reflecting the strong predeliction of members of the genus to search for insects on dead hanging leaves.   ...   The following species  ...  are included in the genus: Epinecrophylla fulviventris  ...  Epinecrophylla gutturalis  ...  Epinecrophylla leucophthalma  ...  Epinecrophylla haematonota  ...  Epinecrophylla fjeldsaai  ...  Epinecrophylla spodionota  ...  Epinecrophylla ornata  ...  Epinecrophylla erythrura" (M. L. Isler et al. 2006); "Epinecrophylla M. L. Isler and Brumfield in M. L. Isler, Lacerda, P. Isler, Hackett, Rosenberg and Brumfield, 2006, Proc. Biological Soc. Washington, 119 (4), p. 523." (JAJ 2021).  It has recently been suggested that the birds in this genus be given the substantive name  Stipplethroat (e.g. Rufous-backed Stipplethroat E. haematonota).

leucophtalmos / leucophthalma / leucophthalmos / leucophthalmum / leucophthalmus
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; οφθαλμος ophthalmos eye (cf. λευκοφθαλμος leukophthalmos  white-eye, type of gem). 

SUBSPECIES

White-eyed Stipplethroat (leucophthalma)
SCI Name: Epinecrophylla leucophthalma leucophthalma
leucophtalmos / leucophthalma / leucophthalmos / leucophthalmum / leucophthalmus
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; οφθαλμος ophthalmos eye (cf. λευκοφθαλμος leukophthalmos  white-eye, type of gem). 

White-eyed Stipplethroat (dissita)
SCI Name: Epinecrophylla leucophthalma dissita
dissita
L. dissitus  lying apart, remote  < disserere  to spread.|
• "Two specimens of the endemic Red-headed Finch Amadina erythrocephala (Linnæus) of the high country below the Drakensberg Escarpment in the eastern Cape Province and Natal in the Durban Museum collection are now found to differ subspecifically from the populations breeding in the dry central and western regions of southern Africa.  ...  I find the birds of these populations generally paler and less densely squamated ventrally than those of the small resident population of the south-eastern highlands.  Despite the limited material at present available, I consider that the latter birds deserve a name of their own, and I propose to designate them  Amadina erythrocephala dissita, subsp. nov. (syn. Amadina erythrocephala).
• "The species is one that has not been found previously outside South America, where its more northern representatives range north only to the Orinoco Valley in southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia, so that it is remarkable to find this colony on Coiba Island, where its presence has been wholly unsuspected.  The Coiba birds represent a distinct race, which is described herewith.   CRANIOLEUCA VULPINA DISSITA  subsp. nov.  ...  The general appearance of this bird, a remarkable addition to the Panamanian avifauna, is that of a group of forms allocated under the species name Cranioleuca vulpina (Pelzeln), though the decidedly brighter brown of the lower surface separates it from them so definitely as almost to warrant species status." (Wetmore 1957) (Cranioleuca).
• "Doryfera johannæ dissita, new subspecies  ...  Mt. Duida, Venezuela, 4700 ft.  ...  While there are no records of this species from between Duida and the Andes, a distance of about 1000 miles, it may possibly occur there." (Chapman 1929) (syn. Doryfera johannae guianensis).

White-eyed Stipplethroat (phaeonota)
SCI Name: Epinecrophylla leucophthalma phaeonota
phaeonota / phaeonotus
Gr. φαιος phaios  dusky, brown; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.

White-eyed Stipplethroat (sordida)
SCI Name: Epinecrophylla leucophthalma sordida
sordida
L. sordidus  shabby, dirty  < sordere  to be dirty  < sordes, sordis  dirt.
● ex “Merle des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 89 (Pitta).