Pied Monarch

SCI Name:  Arses kaupi
Protonym:  Arses kaupi BirdsAustr.Supp. Suppl. pl.,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Arses
Taxonomy Code:  piemon1
Type Locality:  north coast of Australia = Cairns, Queensland, fide Mathews, 1912, Novit. Zool., 18, p. 323.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ARSES
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Frilled Monarch A. telescophthalmus) Arses was the personal name of two ancient kings of Persia; Arses Artaxerxes I (reigned 465-424 BC) believed by some authorities to be King Ahasuerus of Biblical fame, and Arses Artaxerxes IV (reigned 338-336 BC) poisoned after a reign of only three years; "XI.^e Sous-genre. ARSÈS; Arses.  Bec médiocre, crochu, comprimé, peu large; ailes amples, alongées; queue étalée, un peu élargie; tarses courts, peu robustes.    39.º Muscicapa telescopthalma, Less., Zool. de la Coq., pl. 18, fig. 1. De la Nouvelle-Guinée.    40.º Muscicapa chrysomelas, Less., Zool. de la Coq., pl. 18, fig. 2. De la Nouvelle-Irlande.    41.º Muscicapa nigrorufa, Cuv., Levaill. Surinam.    42.º Muscicapa melanoptera, Gm.; Enl., 567, fig. 2. Du Sénégal." (Lesson 1830); "Arses Lesson, ?1830, Traité Ornith., livr. 5, p. 387. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 31), Arses telescophthalma Lesson = Muscicapa telescophthalmus Garnot." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 514).  A typically regal epithet for the Frilled Monarch, parallelling those given to the Monarcha flycatchers and to the American kingbirds Tyrannus.
Synon. Ophryzone, Proseisura.

kaupi
Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist (Arses, syn. Casuarius bennetti, syn. Casuarius unappendiculatus, syn. Leucopternis kuhli, syn. Veniliornis lignarius).

SUBSPECIES

Pied Monarch (terraereginae)
SCI Name: Arses kaupi terraereginae
terraereginae
L. terra  land; regina  queen  < rex, regis  king  < regere  to rule; i.e. Queensland, Australia.

Pied Monarch (kaupi)
SCI Name: Arses kaupi kaupi
kaupi
Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist (Arses, syn. Casuarius bennetti, syn. Casuarius unappendiculatus, syn. Leucopternis kuhli, syn. Veniliornis lignarius).