White-crowned Wheatear

SCI Name:  Oenanthe leucopyga
Protonym:  Vitiflora leucopyga Vogelfang p.225
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code:  whtwhe1
Type Locality:  Egypt and southern Europe [= Kurusku, Upper Egypt (Nubia), vide Vaurie, 1959, Birds Pal. Fauna, Passerif ormes, p. 353] .
Author:  Brehm, CL
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe.  Motacilla, Linn.  Silvia et Turdus, Lath.  Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue.   Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816  F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.

oenanthe
L. oenanthe  wheatear  < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē  unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season  < οινη oinē  vine; ανθος anthos  bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ...  Oenanthe.  17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217.  Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55.  β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219.  Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54.  Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis.  Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).

leucopyga
Gr. λευκοπυγος leukopugos  with white rear  < λευκος leukos  white;
-πυγος -pugos  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

SUBSPECIES

White-crowned Wheatear (aegra)
SCI Name: Oenanthe leucopyga aegra
aegra
L. aeger, aegra  sick, ill, unsound, difficult, sad.

White-crowned Wheatear (leucopyga)
SCI Name: Oenanthe leucopyga leucopyga
leucopyga
Gr. λευκοπυγος leukopugos  with white rear  < λευκος leukos  white;
-πυγος -pugos  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

White-crowned Wheatear (ernesti)
SCI Name: Oenanthe leucopyga ernesti
ernesti
● Ernest Hose (?1872-?1968) English rubber planter in Borneo, collector (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Falco peregrinus).
● Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859-1933) German ornithologist, Curator of Rothschild Mus., Tring (subsp. Lonchura grandis, subsp. Oenanthe leucopyga, syn. Symposiachrus axillaris, subsp. Tyto alba).
● Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (subsp. Pachycephalopsis hattamensis).
● Ernest Henry Saunders (1865-?1943) English naturalist, collector in Australia 1887-1889 and Kenya 1899 (P. Scofield in litt.) (subsp. Pinarochroa sordida).
● See: ernestisecundi (syn. Coccopygia quartinia).