Woodhouse's Antpecker

SCI Name:  Parmoptila woodhousei
Protonym:  Parmoptila Woodhousei Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 11 p.40
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Parmoptila
Taxonomy Code:  wooant1
Type Locality:  Camma River, Gabon.
Author:  Cassin
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PARMOPTILA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Woodhouse's Antpecker P. woodhousei) Gr. παρμη parmē  small round shield; πτιλον ptilon  feather; “Genus PARMOPTILA, nobis.  Allied to Pardalotus. Size small, bill thick, rather wide at base, depressed, curved. Wing moderate, first quill spurious, second and third longest, tail moderate, legs rather strong, toes moderate, claws strong. Feathers of the head and throat in the present species, scale-like.   66. PARMOPTILA WOODHOUSEI, nobis.   ♂. Head and throat covered with rounded, scale-like feathers, which are rufous, lighter on the throat, brighter and nearly brick-red on the forehead.  ...  This is the only bird from Western Africa that I have ever seen which belongs to the Pardalotinæ. It is easily distinguished specifically by its rufous head and throat and spotted under parts, and is a very curious and handsome little bird.  This bird is named in honor of my friend Samuel W. Woodhouse, M.D., of this city, an accomplished and promising young naturalist and scientific traveller in the western countries of the United States.” (Cassin 1859); "Parmoptila Cassin, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 11, p. 40. Type, by monotypy, Parmoptila Woodhousei Cassin." (Traylor in Peters 1968, XIV, 308).
Synon. Lobornis, Rhodornis.

woodhousei / woodhouseii
Dr Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821-1904) US Army 1849-1862, surgeon, explorer, naturalist in the US and Central America (subsp. Aphelocoma californica, Parmoptila).

SUBSPECIES

Woodhouse's Antpecker (woodhousei)
SCI Name: Parmoptila woodhousei woodhousei
woodhousei / woodhouseii
Dr Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821-1904) US Army 1849-1862, surgeon, explorer, naturalist in the US and Central America (subsp. Aphelocoma californica, Parmoptila).

Woodhouse's Antpecker (ansorgei)
SCI Name: Parmoptila woodhousei ansorgei
ansorgeanus / ansorgei / ansorgii
Prof. Dr William John Ansorge (1850-1913) British physician in Mauritius, Uganda and Nigeria, zoologist, collector, explorer in tropical Africa (subsp. Acrocephalus rufescens, subsp. Anthoscopus caroli, subsp. Anthus leucophrys, syn. Apalis rufogularis angolensis, syn. Apus caffer, subsp. Calendulauda sabota, syn. Chlorophoneus bocagei, syn. Cinnyris reichenowi, subsp. Cisticola rufilatus, subsp. Criniger barbatus, Dyaphorophyia, syn. Eremomela atricollis, syn. Erythropygia leucophrys munda, subsp. Euplectes gierowii, syn. Euplectes progne delacouri, Eurillas, subsp. Indicator willcocksi, subsp. Lagonosticta rhodopareia, syn. Melaenornis infuscatus benguellensis, syn. Myioparus griseigularis, Nesocharis, syn. Numida meleagris reichenowi, subsp. Ortygospiza atricollis, subsp. Parisoma subcaeruleum, subsp. Parmoptila woodhousei, subsp. Plocepasser mahali, subsp. Prinia flavicans, subsp. Pterocles bicinctus, syn. Sarothrura rufa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, syn. Sylvia subcoerulea iohannis, subsp. Sylvietta rufescens, subsp. Tchagra australis, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Tricholaema hirsuta, Xenocopsychus).