Black-thighed Falconet / Microhierax fringillarius
WBN 
Black-thighed Falconet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco fringillarius Dict.Class.Hist.Nat.ed.BorydeSt.-Vincent 6 p.412 pl.59
Taxonomy: Falconiformes / Falconidae / Microhierax
Taxonomy Code: bltfal1
Type Locality: 'Indes''; Sumatra suggested by Hartert, 1902, Novit. ZooL, 9, p. 541.
Author: Drapiez
Publish Year: 1824
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MICROHIERAX
(Falconidae; Ϯ Black-thighed Falconet M. fringillarius) Gr. μικρος mikros small; ἱεραξ hierax, ἱερακος hierakos falcon, hawk (cf. genus Ierax Vigors, 1824 (emended to Hierax Vigors, 1826, falconet)); "MICROHIERAX *. Hierax, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 339 (1824, nec Leach, 1816). . . . . .Type. H. fringillarius. ... *μικρος, parvus, ἱεραξ, accipiter." (Sharpe 1874).
Synon. Ierax.
fringillarius
● Late Med. L. fringillarius sparrowhawk, hobby; "The Fringillarius I guess to be the Hobby of the English" (Turner 1544) (syn. Accipiter nisus).
● Mod. L. fringillarius finch-like < L. fringilla finch. “Corpus magnitudine coloreque Fringillae, subtus pallide rufescens, foeminae canescens” (von Spix 1824) (Agelaioides).
● Mod. L. fringillarius finch-like < L. fringilla finch. "FAUCON FRINGILLAIRE. ... Taille, six à sept pouces" (Drapiez 1824) (Microhierax).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
