White-bellied Woodpecker

SCI Name:  Dryocopus javensis
Protonym:  Picus Javensis Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.175
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae / Dryocopus
Taxonomy Code:  whbwoo2
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DRYOCOPUS
(Picidae; † Black Woodpecker D. martius) Gr. δρυοκοπος druokopos  woodpecker  < δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; κοπος kopos  beating  < κοπτω koptō  to strike; "XXIX. Fam.  Picidae  ...   Dryocopus: Picus martius Lin. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Dryocopus Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977.  Type, by monotypy, Picus martius Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 150).   
Synon. Carbonarius, Dryopicos, Dryotomus, Picus.
• (Furnariidae; syn. Dendrocincla † Plain-winged Woodcreeper D. turdina) "Gen. 38. Dryocopus. Drosselspecht.  Lichtenstein hat in seiner Abhandlung über Dendrocolaptes eine Species dieses Genus unter dem Namen turdinus aufgeführt, welche sich durch ihren Schnabelbau sehr von den wahren Baumhackern unterscheidet. |Ich würde für sie den von Vieillot gegebenen Namen Dendrocopus gewählt haben, wenn Boie nicht denselben anderweitig benutzt hätte.  ...  er macht also einen vollkommen natürlichen Uebergang von dem vorhergehenden [Tinactor] zu dem nachfolgenden [Dendrocolaptes] Genus" (zu Wied 1831); "Dryocopus (not of BOIE 1826) WIED, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., 3 (2), p. 1111, 1831—type [by monotypy] Dendrocolaptes turdinus LICHTENSTEIN." (Hellmayr, 1925, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IV, p. 363).

javanicus / javanus / javensis
Java, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
● ex “Sarcelle de Java” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 930 (syn. Anas falcata).
● ex “Calao Javan” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Rhyticeros undulatus).

SUBSPECIES

White-bellied Woodpecker (hodgsonii)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis hodgsonii
hodgsoni / hodgsoniae / hodgsonii / hodgsonis
● Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894) English diplomat, Assistant Commissioner for Kumaon 1819-1820, Assistant Resident/Resident to Nepal 1820-1844, ethnologist, naturalist (syn. Aethopyga saturata, Anthus, syn. Aquila chrysaetos daphanea, Batrachostomus, subsp. Buteo buteo, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus albonotatus, Certhia, syn. Chloropsis aurifrons, syn. Chrysococcyx maculatus, syn. Cochoa purpurea, Columba, syn. Dendrocopos darjellensis, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, Ficedula, syn. Ficedula erithacus, syn. Harpactes erythrocephalus, syn. Hodgsonius phaenicuroides, syn. Motacilla alba leucopsis, syn. Oriolus xanthornus, Phoenicurus, Prinia, subsp. Psilopogon lineatus, syn. Psittacula himalayana, syn. Strix newarensis, Tickellia, syn. Turdus viscivorus, syn. Zoothera mollissima).
● Anne Hodgson née Scott (?1816-1868) first wife of English diplomat and naturalist Brian H. Hodgson (Perdix).

White-bellied Woodpecker (feddeni)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis feddeni
feddeni
Francis Fedden (1839-1887) British surveyor, geologist in India 1862-1887, conchologist, collector (subsp. Dryocopus javensis).

White-bellied Woodpecker (javensis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis javensis
javanicus / javanus / javensis
Java, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
● ex “Sarcelle de Java” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 930 (syn. Anas falcata).
● ex “Calao Javan” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Rhyticeros undulatus).

White-bellied Woodpecker (parvus)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis parvus
parvus
L. parvus  small, little, short.
● ex “Barbu du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 746, fig. 2, “Petit Barbu” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Little Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Gymnobucco calvus).

White-bellied Woodpecker (forresti)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis forresti
forresti / forrestia
● George Forrest (1873-1932) Scottish botanist, explorer, collector in the Himalayas, Tibet and south-western China (subsp. Dryocopus javensis, subsp. Hypothymis azurea, subsp. Lioparus chrysotis, Phylloscopus, subsp. Pomatorhinus superciliaris, syn. Streptopelia tigrina, syn. Trochalopteron chrysopterum woodi).
● Sir John Forrest 1^st Baron Forrest of Bunbury (1847-1918) Australian politician, explorer, first Premier of Western Australia 1890-1901 (subsp. Gavicalis virescens).
● Forrest River, Western Australia (subsp. Mirafra javanica).

White-bellied Woodpecker (richardsi)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis richardsi
richardsi / richardsii
• Adm. Sir George Henry Richards (1820-1896) Royal Navy, hydrographer, donor, and his son, Lt. later Rear-Adm. George Edward Richards (1852-1927) Royal Navy, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (subsp. Ceyx pusillus, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, syn. Ducula rubricera rufigula, Monarcha, Ptilinopus).
• Guy Richards (1905-1979) US ornithologist, journalist, explorer (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Pachycephala).

White-bellied Woodpecker (confusus)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis confusus
confusa / confusus
L. confusus confused < confundere to mix.
● Specimens of the Greater Snow Petrel in the British Museum had previously been confused with those of the Lesser Snow Petrel (Pagodroma).

White-bellied Woodpecker (pectoralis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis pectoralis
pectorale / pectoralis
L. pectoralis  of the breast, pectoral  < pectus, pectoris  breast.
● ex “Engoulevent à collier” of Levaillant 1806 (Caprimulgus).
● ex “Janfréderic” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 111 (syn. Cossypha caffra).
● ex “Austral Quail” of Latham 1823 (Coturnix).
● ex “Gold-breasted Manakin” of Latham 1801 (Euphonia).
● ex “Petit Merle brun à gorge rousse de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 644, fig. 2, and “Yellow-breasted Thrush” of Latham 1785 (syn. Gymnopithys rufigula).
● ex “Red-breasted Snipe” of Montagu 1813 (syn. Limnodromus griseus).
● ex “Black-breasted Flycatcher” of Latham 1787 (Pachycephala).
● ex “Mbatuitui pecho listado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 389 (syn. Pluvialis dominica).
● ex “Tachurí pecho amarillo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 165 (Polystictus).
● ex “Black-breasted Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (syn. Sporophila americana).
● ex “Cordon Noir” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 150 (artefact).
● ex “Hausse-Col Noir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 110 (artefact).

White-bellied Woodpecker (philippinensis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis philippinensis
philippinarum / philippinensis
Philippine Is.
● ex “Cacatua minor” of Brisson 1760, “Petit Kakatoës des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 191, “Petit Kakatoës à bec couleur de chair” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Red-vented Cockatoo” of Brown 1776, and Latham 1781 (syn. Cacatua haematuropygia).
● Erroneous TL. Luzon (= Cape of Good Hope); ex “Pic vert des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 691, “Pic verd de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Manilla Green Woodpecker” of Latham 1782 (syn. Dendropicos griseocephalus).
● ex “Bucco philippensis” of Brisson 1760, “Barbu des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 331, “Barbu à gorge jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1786, and “Yellow-throated Barbet” of Latham 1782 (syn. Megalaima haemacephala).
● ex “Moucherolle des Philippines” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Philippine Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

White-bellied Woodpecker (mindorensis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis mindorensis
mindorensis
Mindoro, Philippines.

White-bellied Woodpecker (cebuensis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis cebuensis
cebuensis
Cebu, Philippines.

White-bellied Woodpecker (multilunatus)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis multilunatus
multilunatus
L. multi-  many  < multus  much; lunatus crescent-shaped, sickle-shaped  < lunare  to bend into a crescent  < luna  moon.

White-bellied Woodpecker (suluensis)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis suluensis
suluensis
Sulu Is., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.

White-bellied Woodpecker (hargitti)
SCI Name: Dryocopus javensis hargitti
hargitti
Edward Hargitt (1835-1895) Scottish watercolourist, traveller, ornithologist specialising in the Picidae (syn. Campethera punctuligera balia, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, syn. Melanerpes cruentatus, subsp. Pharomachrus auriceps).