Black-sided Robin

SCI Name:  Poecilodryas hypoleuca
Protonym:  Petroica hypoleuca Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)2 p.155
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Poecilodryas
Taxonomy Code:  blsrob2
Type Locality:  Dorey (= Manokwari), Vogelkop.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILODRYAS
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Buff-sided Robin P. cerviniventris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  variegated; δρυας druas, δρυαδος druados  dryad, tree-nymph  < δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; "Genus PŒCILODRYAS, Gould.   On reference to the figures of the birds I have called Petroica? cerviniventris and P. superciliosa in the third volume of the folio edition and in the Supplement, it will at once be seen that these two species cannot be associated with either of the preceding genera [Amaurodryas, Melanodryas], and must be separated into a new one; this division I have accordingly made, and assigned to it the above appellation.    Sp. 171. PŒCILODRYAS CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould.  ...  P. superciliosa; to this species the one here described is very nearly allied—so nearly, in fact, that, although I have treated them as distinct, a suspicion has arisen in my mind that they may be the sexes of one and the same species; they both differ in form from the typical or true Petroicæ, and are doubtless representatives of each other in the respective countries they inhabit, the P. superciliosa dwelling on the eastern parts of the continent, and the P. cerviniventris in the western." (Gould 1865); "Poecilodryas Gould, 1865, Handb. Birds Australia, 1, p. 287. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1879, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 4, pp. 240, 242), Petroica? cerviniventris Gould." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 575).
Var. Paecilodryos.
Synon. Leucophantes.

hypoleuca
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
● ex “Pico triqueño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 123 (syn. Sporophila leucoptera).
● Gr. ὑπερλευκος huperleukos exceedingly white; “The name hypoleucus was evidently a lapsus for hyperleucus” (Gadow 1883) (Gymnorhina).

SUBSPECIES

Black-sided Robin (steini)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas hypoleuca steini
steini
Dr Georg Hermann Wilhelm Stein (1897-1976) German zoologist, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, subsp. Butorides striata, subsp. Cormobates placens, syn. Crateroscelis robusta sanfordi, syn. Gennaeodryas placens, subsp. Microptilotis montanus, subsp. Monarcha cinerascens, subsp. Myzomela nigrita, subsp. Poecilodryas hypoleuca, subsp. Rallicula forbesi, syn. Zosterops montanus).

Black-sided Robin (hypoleuca)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas hypoleuca hypoleuca
hypoleuca
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
● ex “Pico triqueño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 123 (syn. Sporophila leucoptera).
● Gr. ὑπερλευκος huperleukos exceedingly white; “The name hypoleucus was evidently a lapsus for hyperleucus” (Gadow 1883) (Gymnorhina).

Black-sided Robin (hermani)
SCI Name: Poecilodryas hypoleuca hermani
hermani
Dr Ottó Herman (1835-1914) Hungarian polymath (subsp. Poecilodryas hypoleuca).