Whyte's Barbet

SCI Name:  Stactolaema whytii
Protonym:  Smilorhis whytii Ibis p.11 pl.1
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Lybiidae / Stactolaema
Taxonomy Code:  whybar1
Type Locality:  Zomba, Nyasaland.
Author:  Shelley
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STACTOLAEMA
(Lybiidae; Ϯ Yellow-headed Barbet S. anchietae) Gr. στακτος staktos  trickling, dropping  < σταζω stazō  to drip; λαιμος laimos  throat; "gutture et pectore longitudinaliter sulphureo striatis" (Barboza du Bocage 1869); "The ornithology of Africa, on the other hand, is considerably less developed, the opportunities for study and research being few and precarious; it contains types of all three subfamilies, and nearly half of the known species, including the most aberrant forms, are found there: among these is one species which we are unable to identify with any of the received generic types, and which presents sufficient structural peculiarities to found a new genus, for which we propose the following name and diagnosis:—  STACTOLÆMA.  Type S. anchietæ (fig. 1, p. 119).  1. Rictal bristles rudimentary or wanting.  2. Bill with the margin smooth.  3. Culmen acute, inflated.   The first and second features identify it with the subfamily of Capitoninæ; the third distinguishes it from Caloramphus and the remaining genera.  S. anchietæ is the only species as yet known" (C. Marshall & G. Marshall 1870).
Synon. Smilorhis.

whytei / whytii
Alexander Whyte (1834-1905) British government naturalist in Nyasaland 1891-1897 (subsp. Cinnyris ludovicensis, subsp. Crithagra striolata, Scleroptila, Stactolaema, Sylvietta).

SUBSPECIES

Whyte's Barbet (terminata)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii terminata
terminata
L. terminatus  limited, bordered, restricted  < terminare  to limit  < terminus, termini  limit, boundary.

Whyte's Barbet (stresemanni)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii stresemanni
stresemanni
Prof. Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (1889-1972) German ornithologist, explorer, collector (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, syn. Alisterus chloropterus callopterus, subsp. Aviceda subcristata, syn. Cacomantis variolosus aeruginosus, subsp. Certhia brachydactyla, subsp. Cincloramphus macrurus, subsp. Collocalia esculenta, Cyornis, subsp. Dendrocopos major, syn. Dendropicos fuscescens centralis, subsp. Dicaeum trochileum, subsp. Emberiza schoeniclus, syn. Epimachus fastuosus atratus, syn. Geoffroyus geoffroyi rhodops, subsp. Heleia squamiceps, syn. Hemiprocne comata, syn. Hemispingus melanotis, subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus, Hylexetastes, subsp. Hypsipetes leucocephalus, subsp. Lanius schach, syn. Locustella davidi, subsp. Malia grata, subsp. Melidectes rufocrissalis, subsp. Melilestes megarhynchus, Merulaxis, subsp. Micropsitta pusio, subsp. Mirafra africana, syn. Myiodynastes maculatus, subsp. Nisaetus nanus, subsp. Oriolus chinensis, syn. Otocompsa sinensis, syn. Otus spilocephalus vandewateri, syn. Pachycephala phaionota, subsp. Phylloscopus castaniceps, syn. Picus canus kogo, syn. Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax brachypus, syn. Scleroptila levaillantoides, syn. Sericornis nouhuysi pontifex, subsp. Sinosuthora alphonsiana, subsp. Stactolaema whytii, subsp. Todiramphus chloris, subsp. Trichoglossus forsteni, syn. Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, Zaratornis, Zavattariornis, Zosterops).

Whyte's Barbet (sowerbyi)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii sowerbyi
sowerbii / sowerbyi
● John Lawrence Sowerby (?1875-1957) British collector, member of British South Africa Police, served during second Matabele war 1896-1897, Southern Rhodesia (= Zimbabwe) (subsp. Stactolaema whytii).
● Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954) British naturalist, explorer, traveller in China and Mongolia (subsp. Eophona migratoria, syn. Erythrogenys gravivox, subsp. Turdus mandarinus).

Whyte's Barbet (whytii)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii whytii
whytei / whytii
Alexander Whyte (1834-1905) British government naturalist in Nyasaland 1891-1897 (subsp. Cinnyris ludovicensis, subsp. Crithagra striolata, Scleroptila, Stactolaema, Sylvietta).

Whyte's Barbet (angoniensis)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii angoniensis
angoniensis
Angoni Plateau, eastern Zambia (cf. Angoni, a people of Natal who fled before the depredations of the Zulus and settled in Nyasaland and Zambia).

Whyte's Barbet (buttoni)
SCI Name: Stactolaema whytii buttoni
buttoni
Capt. Earl L. Button (b. 1913) British colonial administrator, naturalist, collector in Northern Rhodesia 1937-1965 (syn. Calamonastes undosus stierlingi, subsp. Stactolaema whytii).