Swamp Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Muscicapa aquatica
Protonym:  Muscicapa aquatica J.Orn. 12 p.256
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code:  swafly3
Type Locality:  Wau River (= Nahr Waw), Bahr al Ghazal, Sudan.
Author:  von Heuglin
Publish Year:  1864
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MUSCICAPA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Spotted Flycatcher M. striata) L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch; "Genus Muscicapæ ...  Le genre du Gobe-mouche  ...  MUSCICAPA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Curruca" or "Ficedula" of Gessner 1555, "Grisola" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Stoparola" of Willughby 1676, "Curruca subfusca" of Frisch 1733-1743, and "Sylvia pestilentialis" of Klein 1750; "Muscicapa Brisson, 1760, Ornith., 1, p. 32; 2, p. 357, pl. 5, fig. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Muscicapa = Motacilla striata Pallas." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 313). The Spotted Flycatcher is the archetypal flycatcher, perching stolidly, then darting out to seize passing insects before returning to its perch.
Var. Muscicopa, Musicapa, Mussicapa, Muscapa.
Synon. Alseonax, Arizelomyia, Butalis, Hemichelidon, Myiotheras, Stoparola.

muscicapa
L. musca  fly  < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias  fly; capere  to catch.

aquatica / aquaticus
L. aquaticus aquatic, water-living < aqua water (cf. Late L. aquaticus water-coloured).
● ex “Sylvia Schoenobaenus” of Scopoli 1769, and “Aquatic Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Acrocephalus paludicola).
● "83. RALLUS.  ...  aquaticus.  2. R. alis griseis fusco-maculatis, hypochondriis albo-maculatis, rostro luteo.  Rallus aquaticus. Alb. av. I. p. 73. t. 77. Will. orn. 234. Aldr. orn. . . Raj. av. 113. n. 2.  Ortygometra alis fuscis. Syst. nat. 25.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Rallus).

SUBSPECIES

Swamp Flycatcher (aquatica)
SCI Name: Muscicapa aquatica aquatica
aquatica / aquaticus
L. aquaticus aquatic, water-living < aqua water (cf. Late L. aquaticus water-coloured).
● ex “Sylvia Schoenobaenus” of Scopoli 1769, and “Aquatic Warbler” of Latham 1783 (syn. Acrocephalus paludicola).
● "83. RALLUS.  ...  aquaticus.  2. R. alis griseis fusco-maculatis, hypochondriis albo-maculatis, rostro luteo.  Rallus aquaticus. Alb. av. I. p. 73. t. 77. Will. orn. 234. Aldr. orn. . . Raj. av. 113. n. 2.  Ortygometra alis fuscis. Syst. nat. 25.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Rallus).

Swamp Flycatcher (infulata)
SCI Name: Muscicapa aquatica infulata
infulata / infulatus
L. infulatus  adorned with a band  < infula  band, diadem.

Swamp Flycatcher (lualabae)
SCI Name: Muscicapa aquatica lualabae
lualabae
Lualaba district, Katanga, Belgian Congo (= DR Congo).

Swamp Flycatcher (grimwoodi)
SCI Name: Muscicapa aquatica grimwoodi
grimwoodi
Maj. Ian Robert Grimwood (1912-1990) British naturalist, conservationist, Chief Game Warden of Kenya 1959-1964 (Macronyx, subsp. Muscicapa aquatica, subsp. Sheppardia polioptera).