Blue-necked Tanager

SCI Name:  Stilpnia cyanicollis
Protonym:  A.[glaia] cyanicollis Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.33
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Stilpnia
Taxonomy Code:  blntan1
Type Locality:  Yuracares [, Bolivia] .
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Stilpnia
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Black-headed Tanager T. cyanoptera) Gr. στιλπνος stilpnos  glistening, glittering  < στιλπνοω stilpnoō  to polish; "32. Stilpnia, new genus (Fig. 5).   Type species. Aglaia cyanoptera Swainson, 1834 (currently recognized as Tangara cyanoptera).  ...  Etymology. The name, feminine in gender, is derived from the Greek στιλπνη, the feminine form of the adjective meaning "glittering" or "glistening," alluding to the glossiness of the plumage of these colorful tanagers.  Comments. Euschemon Sclater, 1851 (type species Tanagra flava Gmelin, 1789, currently Tangara cayana flava), is preoccupied by Euschemon Doubleday, 1846, the name of an Australian butterfly, and so not available" (Burns et al. 2016) (OD per Richard Klim).

cyanicollis
L. cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.

SUBSPECIES

Blue-necked Tanager (granadensis)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis granadensis
granadense / granadensis
New Granada, a former republic of South America variously incorporating Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.  The name of Granada, the last bastion of the emirs of al-Andalus, was taken to the New World by the conquistadores (cf. New Spain, the original designation of Mexico).  In early ornithology “New Granada” and “Bogotá” were used to designate species of unknown provenance presumed to be from the Spanish Main (i.e. the Spanish-held Mainland), the hinterland of north-western tropical America.

Blue-necked Tanager (caeruleocephala)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis caeruleocephala
caeruleocephala / caeruleocephalus
L. caeruleus dark-blue; Gr. -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.
● ex “Organiste de Saint-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 809, fig. 1 (syn. Euphonia musica).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à tête bleuâtre de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (unident.).

Blue-necked Tanager (hannahiae)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis hannahiae
hannahiae
Hannah Cassin née Wright (1813-1888) wife of US ornithologist John Cassin (subsp. Tangara cyanicollis).

Blue-necked Tanager (cyanopygia)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis cyanopygia
cyanopygia / cyanopygius
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Blue-necked Tanager (cyanicollis)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis cyanicollis
cyanicollis
L. cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy; Mod. L. -collis  -necked, -throated  < L. collum  neck.

Blue-necked Tanager (melanogaster)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis melanogaster
melanogaster / melanogastra / melanogastris / melanogastrus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.
● ex “Black-bellied Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euplectes afer).

Blue-necked Tanager (albotibialis)
SCI Name: Stilpnia cyanicollis albotibialis
albotibialis
L. albus  white; tibialis  shinned  < tibia  shin bone.