Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Poecilotriccus fumifrons
Protonym:  Todirostrum fumifrons J.Orn. 1 no.1 p.35
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Poecilotriccus
Taxonomy Code:  smftof1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to Bahia by Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 303.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1853
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

POECILOTRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-crowned Tody Tyrant P. ruficeps) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos  variegated; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "79. Poecilotriccus*) lenzi sp. nov.   ...   P. P. rufigeni ex Ecuad. occ. maxime affinis, sed pileo capitisque lateribus clarius rufo-castaneis, pileo rufo magis ad nucham protenso, gula solum in medio linea transversa rufescente ornata (neque gula superiore tota nisi mento-rufo-castanea), abdomine clarius flavo, tectricibus alarum superioribus anterioribus apicibus rufescentibus, rectricibus externis apice extus late flavescente marginatis necnon alis longioribus distinguendus.   ...   *) Poecilotriccus nov. gen. Berlepsch von ποικιλος (bunt) und triccus (nom. propr.) (rostro gracili inter genera Todirostrum et Euscarthmus intermedium)." (von Berlepsch 1884); "Poecilotriccus Berlepsch, 1884, Journ. f. Ornith., 32, p. 298. Type, by monotypy, "Poecilotriccus lenzi sp. nov." = Todirostrum lenzi Berlepsch = Todirhamphus ruficeps Kaup." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 76).
Synon. Krotalotriccus, Lanyonia, Physatriccus.

fumifrons
L. fumus, fumi  smoke; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.

SUBSPECIES

Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher (penardi)
SCI Name: Poecilotriccus fumifrons penardi
penardi
● Thomas Edward Penard (1878-1936) Dutch engineer (born in Suriname), ornithologist (subsp. Jacamerops aureus).
●  Doubtless after one or more of the Penard brothers: Frederik Paul Penard (1876-1909), Thomas Edward Penard (1878-1936), and Arthur Philip Penard (1880-1932) Dutch ornithologists, collectors in Suriname (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Picumnus exilis buffoni, subsp. Poecilotriccus fumifrons).
 

Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher (fumifrons)
SCI Name: Poecilotriccus fumifrons fumifrons
fumifrons
L. fumus, fumi  smoke; frons, frontis  forehead, brow.