White-throated Shrike-Tanager

SCI Name:  Lanio leucothorax
Protonym:  Lanio leucothorax Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1864) (1864), Pt3 p.581
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Lanio
Taxonomy Code:  wtstan1
Type Locality:  Tucurriqui, Costa Rica.
Author:  Salvin
Publish Year:  1865
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LANIO
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fulvous Shrike Tanager L. fulvus) Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; “122. LANION, Lanio.  Tanagra, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec robuste, comprimé latéralement, caréné en dessus, rétréci vers le bout; mandibule supérieure dentée vers le milieu, crochue à la pointe; l'inférieure échancrée, aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité.—Bouche ciliée.   Esp. Tangara mordoré, Buffon.” (Vieillot 1816); "Lanio Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 40. Type, by original designation [= by monotypy], "Tangara mordoré" of Buffon = Tangara fulva Boddaert." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 285).
Synon. Pogonothraupis.

leucothorax
Gr. λευκοθωραξ leukothōrax, λευκοθωρακος leucothōrakos  with white cuirass  < λευκος leukos  white; θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breast-plate.

SUBSPECIES

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (leucothorax)
SCI Name: Lanio leucothorax leucothorax
leucothorax
Gr. λευκοθωραξ leukothōrax, λευκοθωρακος leucothōrakos  with white cuirass  < λευκος leukos  white; θωραξ thōrax, θωρακος thōrakos  breast-plate.

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (reversus)
SCI Name: Lanio leucothorax reversus
reversus
L. reversus  returned, reversed  < revertere  to return.

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (melanopygius)
SCI Name: Lanio leucothorax melanopygius
melanopygia / melanopygius
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

White-throated Shrike-Tanager (ictus)
SCI Name: Lanio leucothorax ictus
ictus
L. ictus  struck  < icere  to strike.