Locustfinch

SCI Name:  Paludipasser locustella
Protonym:  Paludipasser locustella Bull.Br.Orn.Club 25 p.25
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Paludipasser
Taxonomy Code:  locust3
Type Locality:  near Lake Bangweulu ; type from upper Luansenshi River, northeast of Lake Bangweulu, fide Neave, 1910, Ibis, p. 251.
Author:  Neave
Publish Year:  1909
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PALUDIPASSER
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Locust Finch P. locustella) L. palus, paludis  marsh; passer, passeris  sparrow; "PALUDIPASSER, gen. n.  Similar to Spermestes, but with a much more diminutive and slender bill, this being at the same time more compressed and not so rounded as in Spermestes.  The type is PALUDIPASSER LOCUSTELLA, sp. n.   ...   Hab. Marshes near Lake Bangweolo, 1st June, 1908." (Neave 1909).

LOCUSTELLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Common Grasshopper Warbler L. naevia) Specific name Sylvia locustella Latham 1790  < Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper  < dim. L. locusta  grasshopper; from the whirring, high-pitched, insect-like song of the Common Grasshopper Warbler; "3. Sylvia locustella.   ...   3. Heuschreckensänger. Locustella.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.   Ch[arakter]. Rohrsänger mit geflecktem Kopf, Rücken und unteren Schwanzdeckfedern.   L[ebensart]. Sie gleichen den Rohrsängern, leben aber sehr versteckt." (Kaup 1829); "Locustella Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 115. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia locustella Latham = Motacilla naevia Boddaert." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 50) (see Salicaria).
Synon. Acridiornis, Aedonops, Aedonopsis, Dilara, Luscinioides, Lusciniopsis, Parnopia, Philomelopsis, Potamodus, Pseudoluscinia, Psithyroedus, Salicaria, Sibilatrix, Threnetria.

locustella
Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper   < dim. L. locusta grasshopper.
● ex “Locustelle” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (syn. Locustella naevia).
● ex “Grasshopper Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Locustella naevia).

SUBSPECIES

Locustfinch (locustella)
SCI Name: Paludipasser locustella locustella
LOCUSTELLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Common Grasshopper Warbler L. naevia) Specific name Sylvia locustella Latham 1790  < Mod. L. locustella  little grasshopper  < dim. L. locusta  grasshopper; from the whirring, high-pitched, insect-like song of the Common Grasshopper Warbler; "3. Sylvia locustella.   ...   3. Heuschreckensänger. Locustella.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.   Ch[arakter]. Rohrsänger mit geflecktem Kopf, Rücken und unteren Schwanzdeckfedern.   L[ebensart]. Sie gleichen den Rohrsängern, leben aber sehr versteckt." (Kaup 1829); "Locustella Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 115. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia locustella Latham = Motacilla naevia Boddaert." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 50) (see Salicaria).
Synon. Acridiornis, Aedonops, Aedonopsis, Dilara, Luscinioides, Lusciniopsis, Parnopia, Philomelopsis, Potamodus, Pseudoluscinia, Psithyroedus, Salicaria, Sibilatrix, Threnetria.

Locustfinch (uelensis)
SCI Name: Paludipasser locustella uelensis
uelensis / uellensis
Uele or Uelle River, Belgian Congo / DR Congo.