White-fronted Falconet / Microhierax latifrons

White-fronted Falconet / Microhierax latifrons

White-fronted Falconet

SCI Name:  Microhierax latifrons
Protonym:  Microhierax latifrons Ibis p.237 pl.7
Taxonomy:  Falconiformes / Falconidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whffal1
Type Locality:  Ldwas River and Lumbidan, Borneo.
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Publish Year:  1879
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DEFINITIONS

MICROHIERAX
(Falconidae; Ϯ Black-thighed Falconet M. fringillarius) Gr. μικρος mikros  small; ἱεραξ hierax, ἱερακος hierakos  falcon, hawk (cf. genus Ierax Vigors, 1824 (emended to Hierax Vigors, 1826, falconet)); "MICROHIERAX *.  Hierax, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 339 (1824, nec Leach, 1816). . . . . .Type. H. fringillarius.  ...  *μικρος, parvus, ἱεραξ, accipiter." (Sharpe 1874).
Synon. Ierax.

latifrons
L. latus  broad, wide; frons, frontis  brow, forehead.