Rusty-winged Barbtail

SCI Name:  Premnornis guttuliger
Protonym:  Thripophaga guttuligera Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.167
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Premnornis
Taxonomy Code:  ruwbar1
Type Locality:  interior of Colombia = Bogota.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1864
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PREMNORNIS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Rusty-winged Barbtail P. guttuliger) Gr. πρεμνον premnon  tree trunk, stump; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Premnornis gen. nov.  (Furnariidæ.)   Related to Margarornis Reichenbach but tail excessively graduated (lateral rectrices less than half as long as middle pair), with tips of rectrices not distinctly acuminate, the minute points not distinctly protruded; wing less than four times as long as tarsus; inner webs of remiges with an extensive basal area (instead of sub-basal band) of ochraceous.   Type.— Margarornis guttata Lawrence.  (πρεμνον, a stump, tree trunk; ορνις, bird.)" (Ridgway 1909); "Premnornis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 22, 1909, p. 71. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Margarornis guttata Lawrence = Thripophaga guttuligera Sclater." (Peters 1951, VII, 117).

guttuliger / guttuligera
L. guttula  little spot  < dim. gutta  spot; -gera  bearing  < gerere  to carry.

SUBSPECIES

Rusty-winged Barbtail (guttuliger)
SCI Name: Premnornis guttuliger guttuliger
guttuliger / guttuligera
L. guttula  little spot  < dim. gutta  spot; -gera  bearing  < gerere  to carry.

Rusty-winged Barbtail (venezuelanus)
SCI Name: Premnornis guttuliger venezuelanus
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).