Speckled Tanager

SCI Name:  Ixothraupis guttata
Protonym:  C.[allispiza] guttata Mus.Hein. 1 p.26
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Ixothraupis
Taxonomy Code:  spetan1
Type Locality:  Roraima, ''Guiana'' [=Cerro Roraima, Bolivar, Venezuela].
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ixothraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Spotted Tanager T. punctata) Gr. ιξος ixos  mistletoe; θταυπις thraupis  unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "C'est ici que doit trouver place notre groupe IXOTHRAUPIS.   1.[sic] IXOTHRAUPIS PUNCTATA, Bp.   ...   12. I. GUTTULATA, Bp.   ...   *13. I. CHRYSOGASTER, Bp.   ...   *14. I. PUSILLA, Bp." (Bonaparte 1851); "Ixothraupis Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2), 3, p. 143, 1851—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., p. 73, 1855), Tanagra punctata Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 81).

guttata
L. guttatus  spotted, speckled  < gutta  drop, spot.
● ex “Héoro-taire moucheté” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (unident., ?Zosteropidae, ?Meliphagidae).

SUBSPECIES

Speckled Tanager (eusticta)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata eusticta
eusticta / eustictus
Gr. ευ eu  fine, good; στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo.

Speckled Tanager (tolimae)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata tolimae
tolimae / tolimensis
Nevado del Tolima, Cordillera Central, Colombia.

Speckled Tanager (bogotensis)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata bogotensis
bogotense / bogotensis
Bogotá (formerly Santa Fé de Bogotá), Colombia. In early ornithology “Bogotá” was used to designate a species of unknown provenance but, from the distinctive way in which the trade-skin had been prepared, presumed to be from the Spanish Main (= Spanish-held Mainland), the hinterland of north-western tropical America.

Speckled Tanager (chrysophrys)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata chrysophrys
chrysophrys
Gr. χρυσοφρυς khrusophrus, χρυσοφρυος khrusophruos  golden-browed  < χρυσος khrusos  gold; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos  eyebrow, brow.

Speckled Tanager (guttata)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata guttata
guttata
L. guttatus  spotted, speckled  < gutta  drop, spot.
● ex “Héoro-taire moucheté” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (unident., ?Zosteropidae, ?Meliphagidae).

Speckled Tanager (trinitatis)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis guttata trinitatis
trinitatis
Late L. Trinitas  the Holy Trinity  < L. trini  three together  < tres  three.
● Trinidad (Spanish Isla de la Trinidad  Island of the Holy Trinity) (syn. Coereba flaveola luteola, subsp. Colaptes rubiginosus, syn. Cyanerpes caeruleus longirostris, syn. Cyclarhis gujanensis flavipectus, Euphonia, subsp. Icterus nigrogularis, subsp. Manacus manacus, subsp. Myiopagis gaimardii, subsp. Pitangus sulphuratus, subsp. Pulsatrix perspicillata, subsp. Ramphocaenus melanurus, subsp. Sakesphorus canadensis, subsp. Synallaxis albescens, subsp. Tangara guttata, subsp. Zentrygon linearis).
● La Trinidad, Benguet, northern Luzon, Philippines (syn. Ficedula hyperythra luzoniensis).
● South Trinidade I. (= Trindade), Brazil, South Atlantic Ocean (subsp. Fregata ariel, syn. Pterodroma arminjoniana).
● El Valle de la Trinidad, Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Toxostoma crissale).