Black-cheeked Woodpecker / Melanerpes pucherani

Black-cheeked Woodpecker / Melanerpes pucherani

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Melanerpes pucherani
Protonym:  Zebrapicus Pucherani Rev.Mag.Zool. (2), 1 p.542
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blcwoo1
Type Locality:  Tobago, error = Colombia by designation of Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 1188.
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Publish Year:  1849
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DEFINITIONS

MELANERPES
(Picidae; Ϯ Red-headed Woodpecker M. erythrocephalus) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; ἑρπης herpēs  creeper  < ἑρπω herpō  to crawl; "1. MELANERPES ERYTHROCEPHALUS. (Sw.)  Red-headed Woodpecker.   GENUS, Melanerpes*, SWAINS.   Sub-genus, (Typical form) SWAINS.   ...   This Woodpecker, so well known in the United States for the havoc it commits in the orchards, ranges in summer from the northern shores of Lake Huron to the Gulf of Mexico.   ...   *Th. μελας, niger, et ερπο, repo" (Swainson 1832); "Melanerpes Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., 2, 1831 (1832), p. 316. Type, by monotypy, Picus erythrocephalus Linné." (Peters 1948, VI, 157).
Var. Melanoherpes, Malanerpes.
Synon. Asyndesmus, Balanosphyra, Cactocraugus, Centurus, Chryserpes, Colombpicus, Leuconerpes, Leucopicus, Linneopicus, Melampicos, Meropicus, Phymatoblepharus, Trichopicus, Trichopipo, Tripsurus, Zebrapicus.

pucherani
Jacques Pucheran (1817-1894) French zoologist, explorer (subsp. Chlorostilbon lucidus, syn. Erythrura cyaneovirens, subsp. Geoffroyus geoffroyi, Guttera, Melanerpes, subsp. Rupornis magnirostris) (see pucheranii).