Graceful Pitta / Erythropitta venusta

Graceful Pitta / Erythropitta venusta

Graceful Pitta

SCI Name:  Erythropitta venusta
Protonym:  Pitta venusta Tijdschr.Nat.Gesch.Phys. 2(1835) p.348 pl.V[=8] fig.4
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blcpit1
Type Locality:  western Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1836
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DEFINITIONS

ERYTHROPITTA
(Pittidae; Macklot's Pitta E. macklotii) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; genus Pitta Vieillot, 1816, pitta; "They are characterized by the unpatterned face and throat; breast band distinct from belly patch; belly all red; and no prominent turquoise shoulder patch" (Beehler & Pratt 2016); "Erythropitta, Bp. — 187. mackloti, Temm. — 188. celebensis, Forst. — 189. erythrogastra, Cuv. — 190. venusta, Mull. — 191. granatina, Temm. (coccinea, Eyt.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Erythropitta Bonaparte, 1854, Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum, p. 7.  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 144 (Appendix)), Pitta macklotii Temminck, 1834." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Monilipitta, Phoeniocichla, Purpureipitta.

venusta
L. venustus  beautiful, lovely  < venus  loveliness.