Oriole Warbler / Hypergerus atriceps
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Oriole Warbler
SCI Name:
Protonym: Moho atriceps TraitedOrn. livr.8 p.646
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Hypergerus
Taxonomy Code: oriwar2
Type Locality: Des iles de la mer du Sud; error: Gold Coast (= Ghana), fide Bannerman and Bates, 1924, Ibis, p. 244.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HYPERGERUS
(Cisticolidae; † Oriole Warbler H. atriceps) Gr. ὑπεργηρως hupergērōs ancient, extremely old < ὑπερ huper exceeding; γηρας gēras, γηρως gērōs old age; alluding to the silver-haired appearance of the Oriole Warbler. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LIV, labelled Turdinae: Pycnonotinae, illustrates the scaly head of this large warbler; "Hypergerus Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Systema Naturale, pl. LIV (no specific names given). Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 44), Moho atriceps Lesson, 1831." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Hypochloreus.
atriceps
L. ater black; -ceps -capped, -headed < caput, capitis head.
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)
