Club-winged Manakin / Machaeropterus deliciosus
WBN 
Club-winged Manakin
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pipra deliciosa Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(28)1 p.90
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pipridae / Machaeropterus
Taxonomy Code: clwman1
Type Locality: Nanegal, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1860
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MACHAEROPTERUS
(Pipridae; Ϯ Eastern Striped Manakin M. regulus) Gr. μαχαιρα makhaira knife, dagger; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; "Males possess modified secondaries, the tips of these feathers being thickened and enlarged ... whilst the tail feathers also have thickened rachi" (Kirwan & Green 2011); "72. MACHÆROPTERUS, Schiff. — 155. strigilatus, Pr. Max. Wied. — 156. striolatus, Bp. — 157. pyrocephalus, Sclat." (Bonaparte 1854); "Machaeropterus Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 316 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 6). Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 147), Pipra strigilatus Wied = Pipra regulus Hahn." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 258).
Synon. Allocotopterus.
deliciosa / deliciosus
L. deliciosus delicate, delightful, delicious < deliciae allurements, delights.
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)
