Maroon Woodpecker / Blythipicus rubiginosus
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Maroon Woodpecker
SCI Name:
Protonym: Hemicircus rubiginosus BirdsW.Afr. 2 p.150
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Blythipicus
Taxonomy Code: marwoo1
Type Locality: Western Africa; error = Malacca, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 402.
Author: Swainson
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BLYTHIPICUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Maroon Woodpecker B. rubiginosus) Edward Blyth (1810-1873) English zoologist, Curator of Mus. of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta; L. picus woodpecker; "10. BLYTHIPICUS, Bp. — 98. rubiginosus, Sw. (porphyromelas, Boie.) — 99. pyrrhotis, Hodgs." (Bonaparte 1854); "Blythipicus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 124. (Separately paged reprint, Consp. Vol. Zygodact., 1854, p. 9.) Type, by subsequent designation, Picus [i.e. Hemicircus] rubiginosus Swainson. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 94.)" (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 224).
Synon. Lepocestes, Phloistes, Plinthopicus, Pyrrhopicus, Venilia.
rubiginosa / rubiginosus
L. rubiginosus rusty, ferruginous < rubigo, rubiginis rust < rubeus reddish.
● ex “Ardea naevia” of Miller 1776, and “Rusty-crowned Heron” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (syn. Nycticorax nycticorax).
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)
