Pygmy Lorikeet

SCI Name:  Charmosyna wilhelminae
Protonym:  Trichoglossus Wilhelminae J.Orn. 22 p.55,56
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Charmosyna
Taxonomy Code:  pyglor1
Type Locality:  West coast of Geelvink Bay.
Author:  Meyer, AB
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHARMOSYNA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Papuan Lorikeet C. papou) Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together; "Genus X.  Charmosyna ***) Wagl.  Sittichlori.   Rostrum, lingua et pedes Trichoglossorum; cauda longula, cuneata, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.   Australiae incola.  Vitae ratio ignota.  Species: 1. Ch. papuensis.   ...   ***) Xαρμοσυνος  amoenus. — Avis generis naturaliter connectit psittacos praecedentes longicaudatos [Trichoglossus] cum sequentibus [Eos], qui rubri sunt et caudam conico-acuminatam habent." (Wagler 1832); "Charmosyna Wagler, Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 493. Type, by monotypy, Ch. papuensis = Psittacus papuensis Gmelin = Psittacus papou Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 158).
Var. Charmosina.
Synon. Charminetta, Charmosynopsis, Hypocharmosyna, Pyrrhodes.

charmosyna
Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together.

wilhelminae
● Wilhelmine Meyer (fl. 1874) wife of German collector A. B. Meyer, and who accompanied him on his expeditions in Celebes and Philippines (Charmosyna, syn. Drepanornis albertisi, Lamprothorax (hybrid)).
● Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria Queen of the Netherlands (1880-1962; reigned 1890-1948) (syn. Alisterus chloropterus calopterus, Dicaeum).