Long-tailed Minivet

SCI Name:  Pericrocotus ethologus
Protonym:  Pericrocotus brevirostris ethologus Bull.Mus.Comp.Zool. 58 p.282
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Pericrocotus
Taxonomy Code:  lotmin1
Type Locality:  Hsien Shan, Hupeh Province, China.
Author:  Bangs & Phillips
Publish Year:  1914
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PERICROCOTUS
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Sunda Minivet P. miniatus) Gr. περι peri  very, all around; κροκωτος krokōtos  golden-yellow  < κροκος krokos  saffron; "VI. Fam. Sylviadae Vigors.   ...   Pericrocotus: Musc. miniata Tem. col. 156  u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pericrocotus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 2, (10), col. 972. Type, by original designation [?] and monotypy, Muscicapa miniata Temminck." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 207).
Var. Perierocotus, Pericrodotus.
Synon. Acis, Motacilloides, Phoenicornis.

ethologus
L. ethologus  mimic  < Gr. ηθολογος ēthologos  mimic  < ηθος ēthos  character; λογος logos  expression.

SUBSPECIES

Long-tailed Minivet (favillaceus)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus favillaceus
favillaceus
L. favillaceus like ashes < favilla hot ashes, cinders.

Long-tailed Minivet (laetus)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus laetus
laetus
L. laetus  bright, joyful.

Long-tailed Minivet (ethologus)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus ethologus
ethologus
L. ethologus  mimic  < Gr. ηθολογος ēthologos  mimic  < ηθος ēthos  character; λογος logos  expression.

Long-tailed Minivet (yvettae)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus yvettae
yvettae
Yvette Andrews née Borup (1891-1959) US/French explorer, photographer, first wife of zoologist Dr Roy Chapman Andrews (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Pericrocotus ethologus).

Long-tailed Minivet (ripponi)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus ripponi
ripponi
Lt.-Col. George Rippon (1861-1927) British Army in India and Burma 1880-1914 (subsp. Abroscopus schisticeps, subsp. Actinodura egertoni, syn. Carpodacus verreauxii, subsp. Certhia himalayana, subsp. Fulvetta vinipectus, Liocichla, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Pericrocotus ethologus, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, syn. Prunella collaris nipalensis, subsp. Suthora nipalensis).

Long-tailed Minivet (annamensis)
SCI Name: Pericrocotus ethologus annamensis
annamense / annamensis
Annam Protectorate, French Indochina (= central Vietnam).