Wedge-tailed Sabrewing

SCI Name:  Campylopterus curvipennis
Protonym:  Trochilus curvipennis Preis-Verzeichn.Saugeth.Vog.Mex.gesam. p.1 no.32
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Campylopterus
Taxonomy Code:  wetsab1
Type Locality:  Mexico.
Author:  Deppe
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CAMPYLOPTERUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Grey-breasted Sabrewing C. largipennis) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved, bent  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; -πτερος -pteros  
-winged  < πτερον pteron  wing (cf. specific name Trochilus campylopterus J. Gmelin, 1788 (= syn. Campylopterus largipennis)); "CAMPYLOPTERUS.  Rostrum longiusculum, sub-arcuatum.  Alæ falcatæ; remigum primarum scapis dilatato-compressis.  Cauda rotundata, vel gradata.    Types. 1. T. latipennis.  2. falcatus. Sw., Zool. Ill.  ... Wings falcated, the shafts or scapes of the primary quills dilated and compressed." (Swainson 1827); "Campylopterus Swainson, Zool. Journ., 3, 1827, p. 358. Type, by subsequent designation, C. latipennis (Lath.) = Trochilus largipennis Boddaert. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 13.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 18).
Var. Campilopterus.
Synon. Bombornis, Loxopterus, Pampa, Phaeochroa, Platystylopterus, Saepiopterus, Sphenoproctus.

campylopterus
Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved, bent  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux de Cayenne” of d’Aubenon 1765-1781, pl. 672, fig. 2, “Oiseau-mouche à larges tuyaux” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Broad-shafted Humming-bird” of Latham 1783 (syn. Campylopterus largipennis).

curvipennis
L. curvus  curved; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

SUBSPECIES

Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (Curve-winged)
SCI Name: Campylopterus curvipennis curvipennis
curvipennis
L. curvus  curved; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (Wedge-tailed)
SCI Name: Campylopterus curvipennis pampa
pampa
French name “Campyloptère Pampa” given to the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing of Yucatán by Lesson 1832, in the mistaken belief that it came from the interior of La Plata (i.e. the pampas, the plains of Argentina  < Quechua pampas  plains) (subsp. Campylopterus curvipennis).