Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler

SCI Name:  Locustella certhiola
Protonym:  Motacilla Certhiola Zoogr.Rosso-Asiat. 1 p.509
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Locustella
Taxonomy Code:  pagwar1
Type Locality:  'in regionum [sic] ultra Baicalem'' = mountainous region between Onon and Borzya in eastern Transbaikalia, fide Meise, 1934, Abh. Ber. Mus. Tierkunde Volkerkunde Dresden, 18, no. 2, p. 39.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1811
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

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).

certhiola / certhiolus
● Dim. < specific name Picus certhia Boddaert, 1783 (subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris).
● Dim. < genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper; "Forma rostri, coloribus, habitu corporis et cauda cuneiformi aliquam cum Certhia familiari similitudinem exprimit, sed moribus diversis et charactere Motacillis assimilatur" (Pallas 1811) (Locustella).

Certhiola
(Thraupidae; syn. Coereba † Bananaquit C. flaveola) Combination from specific name Certhia flaveola Linnaeus, 1758 (cf. dim. < genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper); "Certhiola  n.g. 2)  (Certhia flaveola L.).    2) Rostrum longitudine fere capitis, fortius arcuatum, acutissimum, carinula palati rotundata, depressa (ut in Dacni).  Remiges 3:a et 4:a reliquis longiores.  Lingua ut Dacnis" (Sundevall 1836); "Certhiola Sundevall, Ofvers. Vetensk.-Akad. Förhandl., 1835, p. 99, 1836—type, by monotypy, Certhia flaveola Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1935, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VIII, p. 284).

SUBSPECIES

Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (rubescens)
SCI Name: Locustella certhiola rubescens
rubescens
L. rubescens, rubescentis  reddish, blushed  < rubescere  to become reddish  < ruber  ruddy, red.
● ex “Lark from Pensilvania” of Edwards 1760, and “Red Lark” of Pennant 1768 (Anthus).
● ex "Kokuh" of Krusenstern 1814 (Pampusana).

Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (sparsimstriata)
SCI Name: Locustella certhiola sparsimstriata
sparsimstriata / sparsimstriatus
L. sparsim  scattered, here and there  < sparsus  sprinkled  < spargere  to sprinkle; striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow.

Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (certhiola)
SCI Name: Locustella certhiola certhiola
certhiola / certhiolus
● Dim. < specific name Picus certhia Boddaert, 1783 (subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris).
● Dim. < genus Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper; "Forma rostri, coloribus, habitu corporis et cauda cuneiformi aliquam cum Certhia familiari similitudinem exprimit, sed moribus diversis et charactere Motacillis assimilatur" (Pallas 1811) (Locustella).

Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (centralasiae)
SCI Name: Locustella certhiola centralasiae
centralasiae
Central Asia  Asia centralis  < L. centralis, centrale  central  < centrum  centre point, middle  < Gr. κεντρον kentron  sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses; Asia, Asiae  Asia.