Subspecies Hylacola pyrrhopygia pyrrhopygius (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

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• Acanthiza pyrrhopygia Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [227].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.28 adult ♀, NSW: Sydney [33ᵒ52'S, 151ᵒ12'E].

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [456].
• Sericornis tyrranulus De Vis, C.W. 1905. Ornithological. Annals of the Queensland Museum 6: 41-45 [Date published Sep 1905] [42] [published as tyrranula, an adjective — gender ending corrected accordingly: ICdZN Art. 30.1; officially suppressed for principle of priority but not homonymy: ICmZN Opinion 684].

  Secondary source:

   Parker, S.A. 1984. The identity of Sericornis tyrannula De VIs. The Emu 84(2): 108-110 [Date published Jun 1984] [108] (discussion of the identity of the taxon and possible location of the type specimen).
• Hylacola pyrrhopygia belcheri Mathews, G.M. 1913. Additions and corrections to my Reference List, Addenda. Austral Avian Records 1(8): 187-194 [Date published Jan.] [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 585495 immature unsexed, Vic: Anglesea [38ᵒ25'S, 144ᵒ10'E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 585493 immature unsexed, Vic: Anglesea [38ᵒ25'S, 144ᵒ10'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 [145-146].
• Hylacola pyrrhopygia magna Howe, F.E. 1918. Description of a new sub-species of Hylacola pyrrhopygia (Vig. & Hors.). The Emu 18: 59 [Date published 1 Jul 1918] [59].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV HLW.1995 adult ♂, NSW: Cobbora [32.03S, 149.15E]; NMV HLW.1997 juvenile ♂, NSW: Cobbora [32.03S, 149.15E]; NMV HLW.1996 ♀, NSW: Cobbora [32.03S, 149.15E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Hylacola pyrrhopygia pyrrhopygia (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827).
• Calamanthus pyrrhopygia pyrrhopygia (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827).
• Calamanthus pyrrhopygius pyrrhopygius (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827).
• Hylacola pyrrhopygius pyrrhopygius (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest, low sclerophyll heath.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	09-Jun-2020	MODIFIED
31-Oct-2018	ACANTHIZIDAE Bonaparte, 1854	09-Dec-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Wayne Longmore
		12-Feb-2010	(import)