Wedge-tailed Hillstar

SCI Name:  Oreotrochilus adela
Protonym:  Trochilus Adela Mag.Zool. 8 cl.2 p.33
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Oreotrochilus
Taxonomy Code:  wethil1
Type Locality:  Chuquisaca, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

OREOTROCHILUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Andean Hillstar O. estella) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain (i.e. Bolivian Andes) ; genus Trochilus Linnaeus, 1758, hummingbird; "Genus OREOTROCHILUS, n. g.  Rostrum capite longius, subcylindricum, apulo incurvum.  Alæ subgrandes valentes.  Cauda magna, rotundata, rectricibus attenuatis, submucronatis, rigidis.  Pedes fortes.  Digitus et unguis postici digito et ungui mediis longitudine æquales.  Tarsi plumis vestiti.  Gula luminosa infra torquata.   ...  I propose this term as a generic appellation for a section of the Trochilidæ, which has hitherto only been found immediately beneath the line of perpetual congelation, where they feed upon the insects which resort to the newly expanded flowers.  The type is  Sp. 1. OREOTROCHILUS ESTELLA.  Orthorhynchus Estella, D'Orb. Voy. Am. Birds, pl. 6. fig.1.  ...  O. Ceciliæ, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 43.    Sp. 2. OREOTROCHILUS LEUCOPLEURUS, sp. nov.   ...   Sp. 3. OREOTROCHILUS CHIMBORAZO.  T. Chimborazo, Bourc. in Rev. Zool. Sept. 1846, p. 305.    Sp. 4. OREOTROCHILUS ADELA.  Orthorhynchus Adela, D'Orb. Voy. Am. Birds, pl. 61. fig. 2   ...   Sp. 5. OREOTROCHILUS MELANOGASTER, sp. nov." (Gould 1847).
Var. Orotrochilus ("OROTROCHILUS  ...  Da Oreotrochilus als sechssylbiges Wort nicht anwendbar, verkürzen wir dasselbe Analogie von οροσπιζης u. a. in Orotrochilus." (Cabanis & Heine 1860)), Oriotrochilus.   
Synon. Alcidius, Gnaphocercus.

adela
St Adela of France (1009-1079) Duchess of Normandy, Countess of Flanders, Regent of France (cf. (1) Gr. αδηλος adēlos  obscure  < negative prefix α- a-; δηλος dēlos  visible.  (2) "Oreotrochilus adela (d'Orbigny, 1839).⁵  ...  ⁵ Adela is thought to refer to Adelaide, d'Orbigny's mother-in-law." (Dickinson & Schneider 2020, Zool. Bibliography, 5 (11), p. 414)) (Oreotrochilus).