Gray-headed Social-Weaver

SCI Name:  Pseudonigrita arnaudi
Protonym:  Nigrita arnaudi Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.444 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Ploceidae / Pseudonigrita
Taxonomy Code:  gyhsow1
Type Locality:  White Nile.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PSEUDONIGRITA
(Ploceidae; Ϯ Grey-capped Social Weaver P. arnaudi) Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false; genus Nigrita Strickland, 1843, negrofinch. "Herr Reichenow spricht über einige afrikanische Webervögel und stellt folgende neuen Gattungen und Untergattungen auf: Pseudonigrita für Nigrita arnaudi B., Phormoplectes als subgenus der Gattung Ploceus für P. insignis (Sharpe), Hypermegethes ebenso für P. grandis (G. G. Gr.)." (Reichenow 1903); "Pseudonigrita Reichenow, 1903, Journal für Ornithologie, 51, p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Nigrita arnaudi Bonaparte." (mihi).
Synon. Somalita, Whitellus.

arnaudi
Lt.-Col. Joseph-Pons d’Arnaud Bey (1811-1884) French civil engineer in Egyptian service 1831 (where given the Ottoman honorific 'Bey' by Mehmet Ali Pasha), big-game hunter, explorer in the Sudan and Abyssinia 1839-1860 (syn. Lanius collaris humeralis, Pseudonigrita).

SUBSPECIES

Gray-headed Social-Weaver (arnaudi)
SCI Name: Pseudonigrita arnaudi arnaudi
arnaudi
Lt.-Col. Joseph-Pons d’Arnaud Bey (1811-1884) French civil engineer in Egyptian service 1831 (where given the Ottoman honorific 'Bey' by Mehmet Ali Pasha), big-game hunter, explorer in the Sudan and Abyssinia 1839-1860 (syn. Lanius collaris humeralis, Pseudonigrita).

Gray-headed Social-Weaver (dorsalis)
SCI Name: Pseudonigrita arnaudi dorsalis
dorsale / dorsalis
L. dorsalis (properly dorsualis)  dorsal, of the back  < dorsum  back.
● ex “Chorlito à dos noir” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 (syn. Calidris melanotos).