Rosy-patched Bushshrike

SCI Name:  Rhodophoneus cruentus
Protonym:  Lanius cruentus Symb.Phys.Aves(1828) (1828), sig.c(1833) pl.3(1828)
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Rhodophoneus
Taxonomy Code:  ropbus1
Type Locality:  Arkiko near Massawa.
Author:  Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Publish Year:  1828
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

RHODOPHONEUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Rosy-patched Bush-shrike R. cruentus) Gr. ῥοδον  rhodon  rose; φονευς phoneus  murderer (i.e. shrike (see Enneoctonus))  < φονευω phoneuō  to murder (cf. genus Phoneus Kaup, 1829, shrike); "Subgen. Rhodophoneus, Heugl.   No. 392.  Dryoscopus cruentatus.  Lanius cruentus, Hempr. & Ehr. (nec Less.) Symb. phys. (1828) t. 3. — Lanius cruentatus, Rpp. N. W. p. 32.  ...  Somalisch: Idatnis: Speke.  Supra dilute fuscescente-cinerascens, pileo auchenioque pulchre roseo-lavatis; loris, collo antico, pectore et epigastrio medio albis; abdomine reliquo sordide ochraceo; subalaribus et subcaudalibus albis, ochraceo-lavatis; uropygii plumis laxis, decompositis striaque abdominali mediana, a pectore orta, pulchre roseo-sanguineis   ...   Der blutbrüstige Würger hat einen sehr beschränkten Verbreitungsbezirk.   ...   Auch in ihrem sonstigen Benehmen zeigen sie viel Analogie mit den grossen europäischen Würgern, namentlich in Stellung und Art der Bewegung des Schwanzes." (von Heuglin 1871); "Rhodophoneus Heuglin, 1871, Orn. Nord-Ost. Afr., 1, p. 462. Type, by monotypy, Lanius cruentus Ehrenberg." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 320).

cruentus
L. cruentus  bloody, stained with blood  < cruor, cruoris  blood.

SUBSPECIES

Rosy-patched Bushshrike (cruentus)
SCI Name: Rhodophoneus cruentus cruentus
cruentus
L. cruentus  bloody, stained with blood  < cruor, cruoris  blood.

Rosy-patched Bushshrike (kordofanicus)
SCI Name: Rhodophoneus cruentus kordofanicus
kordofanensis / kordofanicus
Kordofan, Sudan.

Rosy-patched Bushshrike (hilgerti)
SCI Name: Rhodophoneus cruentus hilgerti
hilgerti
Carl Hilgert (1866-1940) German taxidermist, collector in Africa and the Near East (syn. Accipiter ovampensis, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Colius striatus, syn. Coloeus monedula spermologus, syn. Galerida theklae carolinae, syn. Garrulus glandarius, syn. Lophotis ruficrista, subsp. Nilaus afer, syn. Ochrospiza atrogularis reichenowi, subsp. Rhodophoneus cruentus, syn. Streptopelia capicola somalica, syn. Sylvietta brachyura leucopsis).

Rosy-patched Bushshrike (cathemagmenus)
SCI Name: Rhodophoneus cruentus cathemagmenus
cathemagmena / cathemagmenus
Gr. καθεμα kathema collar, necklace; αγμειονης agmeionēs groin (cf. μαγιρος magiros butcher (i.e. shrike); μηνη mēnē moon, crescent.