Species Aphelocephala nigricincta (North, 1895)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xerophila nigricincta North, A.J. 1895. Preliminary descriptions of a new genus and of five new species of Central Australian birds. Ibis 7 1: 339-342 [340].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM O.9155 adult ♀, NT: Missionary Plains; AM O.9156 adult ♂, NT: Missionary Plains; AM O.9157 adult ♂, NT: Missionary Plains.

  Type locality references:

  Longmore, N.W. 1991. Type specimens of birds in the Australian Museum. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum n 4: 1-42 [17].
• Aphelocephala nigricincta tanami Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [378].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 683515 adult ♀, NT: Tanami Gold Field, 1300 ft [19°58'S, 129°42'E].

  Type locality references:

  LeCroy, M. 2008. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, and Petroicidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313(7): 1-298 [184].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Bare stony plain, chenopodiaceous steppe, rocky hummock grassfield, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

 

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [46] (Banded Whiteface, Black-banded Squeaker, Black-banded Whiteface)

Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1999. The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia : CSIRO Publishing x 851 pp. (Banded Whiteface)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	05-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)