White-throated Flowerpecker / Dicaeum vincens
White-throated Flowerpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Prionochilus vincens Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.730
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Dicaeidae / Dicaeum
Taxonomy Code: whtflo1
Type Locality: Ceylon.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1872
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
DICAEUM
(Dicaeidae; Ϯ Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker D. cruentatum) Gr. δικαιον dikaion supposedly an Indian bird mentioned by Aelianus, but the name probably refers to the scarab beetle Scarabaeus; "LES DICÉES. (DICÆUM. Cuv.) (3). Ne grimpent pas non plus, et n'ont pas la queue usée; leur bec aigu, arqué, pas plus long que la tête, est déprimé et élargi à sa base. Ils viennent des Indes-Orientales, sont fort petits, et portent généralement de l'écarlate dans leur plumage. ... (3) DICÆUM, nom d'un très-petit oiseau des Indes selon Ælien. A ce sous-genre appartiennent certh. erythronotos, Vieill. II, 35. Le C. cruentata, Edw. 81, en est probablement une variété d'âge. — C. rubra, Vieill. pl. 54. — C. erythropygia, Lath. 2e Supp. — C. tæniata, Sonn. IIe Voy. pl. 107, fig. 3. — C. cantillans, id. ib. 2." (Cuvier 1817); "Dicaeum Cuvier, 1817, Règne Animal., 1, p. 410. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, ed. 1, p. 13), Certhia erythronotum Gmelin = Certhia erythronotos Latham = Certhia cruentata Linnaeus." (Salomonsen in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 174).
Var. Diceaum, Diceum, Dicoeum, Decaeum.
Synon. Austrodicaeum, Bournsia, Chilociris, Chromatociris, Cryptociris, Microchelidon, Myzanthe, Pachyglossa, Phenacistes, Polisornis, Psarisoma.
vincens
L. vincens, vincentis surpassing < vincere to overcome.
● “as Mr Legge had proposed no name, Mr Sclater suggested the specific name vincens, after one of the names of its discoverer” (P. Sclater 1872); Lt.-Col. William Vincent Legge (1841-1918) Australian Army, naturalist in Ceylon 1868-1883 (Dicaeum).
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)