Spot-breasted Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Colaptes punctigula
Protonym:  Picus punctigula TablePlanchesEnlum. p.37
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Colaptes
Taxonomy Code:  spbwoo1
Type Locality:  Cayenne; based on Daubenton, pi. 613.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

COLAPTES
(Picidae; Ϯ Yellow-shafted Flicker C. auratus) Gr. κολαπτης kolaptēs  chiseller  < κολαπτω kolaptō  to chisel, to peck, to strike; "The former group, or the Linnean Pici, it may be again observed, include some species where the bill loses the straight and angulated form, and becomes curved and compressed. These birds, of which the Picus auratus of Linnæus is the representative §, exhibit in this particular an evident approximation to the true Creepers   ...   § This group forms the genus Colaptes of Mr. Swainson." (Vigors 1825); "Colaptes Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 14, pt. 3, 1826, p. 457, note.  Type, by original designation, Cuculus auratus Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 100).  
Synon. Chrysopicus, Chrysoptilus, Craugus, Geopicos, Malherbipicus, Nesoceleus, Pediopipo, Pituipicus, Soroplex, Theiopicus, Tridactylocolaptes.

punctigula / punctigulus
L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture; gula throat.
● ex “Pic rayé de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 613, “Petit pic rayé de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Cayenne Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (Colaptes).

SUBSPECIES

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (ujhelyii)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula ujhelyii
ujhelyii
József Újhelyi-Uhl (1879-1933) Hungarian entomologist, collector in Colombia 1912 (subsp. Colaptes punctigula).

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (striatigularis)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula striatigularis
striatigularis
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; Mod. L. gularis  -throated, of the throat  < L. gula  throat.

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (zuliae)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula zuliae
zuliae / zuliana / zulianus / zuliensis
Zulia State, Venezuela.

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (punctipectus)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula punctipectus
punctipectus
L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture; pectus, pectoris  breast.

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (punctigula)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula punctigula
punctigula / punctigulus
L. punctum  spot  < pungere  to puncture; gula throat.
● ex “Pic rayé de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 613, “Petit pic rayé de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Cayenne Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (Colaptes).

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (guttatus)
SCI Name: Colaptes punctigula guttatus
guttatum / guttatus
L. guttatus spotted, speckled  < gutta  spot, drop.
● ex “Esparvero pardo y goteado” (= ☼) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 24 (syn. Accipiter bicolor pileatus).
● ex “Perroquet Amazone varié du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 120 (?syn. Amazona ochrocephalus).
● ex “Grimpar Picucule” of Levaillant 1807 (Xiphorhynchus).