White-fronted Bee-eater

SCI Name:  Merops bullockoides
Protonym:  Merops Bullockoides S.Afr.Q.J.(2) -2 p.320
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code:  wfbeat1
Type Locality:  South Africa, restricted to the Marico district, Transvaal, by Grant and Praed, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 57, 1937, p. 129.
Author:  Smith, A
Publish Year:  1834
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis  bee-eater  < Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; "57. MEROPS.  Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum.  Lingua apice laciniata.  Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.

bullockoides
Specific name Merops bullockii A. Smith, 1834 (= Merops Bulocki Vieillot, 1817); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs   resembling; "Merops Bullockii.  ...  Inhabits Senegal.   Merops Bullockoides, Smith.  ...  Inhabits South Africa.  Obs. This may be only a variety of the former, or the opposite sex." (A. Smith 1834) (Merops).

SUBSPECIES

White-fronted Bee-eater (bullockoides)
SCI Name: Merops bullockoides bullockoides
bullockoides
Specific name Merops bullockii A. Smith, 1834 (= Merops Bulocki Vieillot, 1817); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs   resembling; "Merops Bullockii.  ...  Inhabits Senegal.   Merops Bullockoides, Smith.  ...  Inhabits South Africa.  Obs. This may be only a variety of the former, or the opposite sex." (A. Smith 1834) (Merops).

White-fronted Bee-eater (randorum)
SCI Name: Merops bullockoides randorum
randorum
Dr Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) Canadian ornithologist, Curator at Field Mus., Chicago 1947-1970 (OD per Björn Bergenholtz) (syn. Merops bullockoides).