Whistling Cisticola

SCI Name:  Cisticola lateralis
Protonym:  Drymoica lateralis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt11 no.121 p.16
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code:  whicis1
Type Locality:  Cape Palmas, Liberia.
Author:  Fraser
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola.   ...   2. Zistensänger. Cisticola.   E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich.  Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119.  Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.

cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis  little basket  < dim. κιστη kistē  basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.

laterale / lateralis
L. lateralis  of the side, lateral  < latus  side  (cf. Late L. lateralis  of brick  < L. later  brick).
● ex “Rusty-sided Warbler” of Latham 1801 (Zosterops).

SUBSPECIES

Whistling Cisticola (lateralis)
SCI Name: Cisticola lateralis lateralis
laterale / lateralis
L. lateralis  of the side, lateral  < latus  side  (cf. Late L. lateralis  of brick  < L. later  brick).
● ex “Rusty-sided Warbler” of Latham 1801 (Zosterops).

Whistling Cisticola (antinorii)
SCI Name: Cisticola lateralis antinorii
antinorii
Orazio Marchese Antinori (1811-1882) Italian zoologist, explorer, collector in Egypt and the Sudan 1859-1861, Abyssinia 1876-1882 (subsp. Cisticola lateralis, syn. Lanius somalicus, subsp. Psalidoprocne pristoptera).

Whistling Cisticola (modestus)
SCI Name: Cisticola lateralis modestus
modesta / modestum / modestus
L. modestus  plain, modest, unassuming  < modus  measure, standard.