White-tailed Warbler

SCI Name:  Poliolais lopezi
Protonym:  Apalis lopezi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 13 p.35 spdP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Poliolais
Taxonomy Code:  whtwar1
Type Locality:  Bakaki (= Bacake), Fernando Po. Spelling corrected to lopesi, Alexander, 1903 (July), Ibis, p. 373.
Author:  Alexander
Publish Year:  1903
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

POLIOLAIS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ White-tailed Warbler P. lopezi) Gr. πολιος polios  grey; Mod. L. laïs  warbler  < Gr. ὑπολαις hupolais  small unidentified ground-nesting bird; "POLIOLAIS, n. gen.  Genus inter genera Sylviella et Camaroptera dicta intermedium, pedibus caudam longe superantibus et rectricibus externis pure albis distinguendum.  Typus est  19. POLIOLAIS HELENORÆ, n. sp.   Sordide fuscescenti-olivaceo-viridis; pileo saturatiore, brunnescentiore; loris, superciliis et facie laterali tota diluti castaneis; gastræo toto schistaceo, gutture et abdomine albicantibus; hypochondriis imis et tibiis olivascenti-brunneis; alis dorso concoloribus; rectricibus duabus medianis nigricanti-brunneis; reliquis dimidiatim nigris et albis, lateralibus autem pure albis.   ...   Hab. Bakaki, Nov. 20, 1902." (Alexander 1903); "Poliolais Alexander, 1903, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, 13, p. 36. Type, by original designation, Poliolais helenorae Alexander [♀] = Apalis lopesi Alexander [= ♂]." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 195).  Apalis lopezi was described on page 35, Poliolais helenorae on page 36, of the same paper.

lopesi / lopezi
José Lopes (fl. 1903) Portuguese taxidermist, collector for Boyd Alexander in the Cape Verdes and tropical Africa. Subsequent amendments or corrections of original spelling lopezi to lopesi, even by the original author, are considered unjustified (subsp. Accipiter toussenelii, Bradypterus, syn. Halcyon badia, Poliolais, syn. Pytilia hypogrammica, subsp. Sheppardia cyornithopsis).

SUBSPECIES

White-tailed Warbler (Highland)
SCI Name: Poliolais lopezi manengubae
manengubae
Mt. Manenguba, Kumba Division, British Cameroons.

White-tailed Warbler (Alexander's)
SCI Name: Poliolais lopezi alexanderi
alexanderi
● Alexander William Milligan (1858-1921) Australian ornithologist, founder member of the RAOU (syn. Acanthiza chrysorrhoa normantoni, syn. Anas castanea, syn. Chenonetta jubata, syn. Pachyptila desolata, syn. Thalassarche chrysostoma).
● Capt. Boyd Francis Alexander (1873-1910) British explorer, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Amadina fasciata, subsp. Eremomela icteropygialis, Falco, subsp. Galerida cristata, syn. Indicator minor senegalensis, subsp. Nigrita luteifrons).
● William Backhouse Alexander (1885-1965) British ornithologist (syn. Diomedea dabbenena).
● Horace Gundry Alexander (1889-1989) British ornithologist, pioneer field observer (subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus).

White-tailed Warbler (Bioko)
SCI Name: Poliolais lopezi lopezi
lopesi / lopezi
José Lopes (fl. 1903) Portuguese taxidermist, collector for Boyd Alexander in the Cape Verdes and tropical Africa. Subsequent amendments or corrections of original spelling lopezi to lopesi, even by the original author, are considered unjustified (subsp. Accipiter toussenelii, Bradypterus, syn. Halcyon badia, Poliolais, syn. Pytilia hypogrammica, subsp. Sheppardia cyornithopsis).