Spot-winged Parrotlet / Touit stictopterus

Spot-winged Parrotlet / Touit stictopterus

Spot-winged Parrotlet

SCI Name:  Touit stictopterus
Protonym:  Urochroma stictoptera Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.112 pl.11
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  spwpar2
Type Locality:  Bogota, Colombia.
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Publish Year:  1862
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DEFINITIONS

TOUIT
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet T. huetii) Tupí name Tuí eté  really little parrot, for the parrotlets (“Tuiete” of Marcgrave 1648); "1508.  TOUIT, Less. 1831.  Pyrrhulopsis, Pr. B. 1854, nec Reichenb. 1849.  (Psittacus Hueti, Temm.)" (G. Gray 1855).
Synon. Euchroura, Pyrrhulopsis, Urochroma.

stictoptera / stictopterus
Gr. στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō  to tattoo; -πτερος -pteros 
-winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.