Genus Sphecotheres Vieillot, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphecotheres Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [42].

  Type species:

   Sphecotheres viridis Vieillot, 1816 by monotypy.
• Picnoramphus Rosenberg, C.B.H. 1866. [Title not located]. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 29 [143].
• Sphecotera Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Paris : Déterville 70 pp. [Date published 14 Apr 1816] [68, 70] [alternative spelling of Sphecotheres unused in all literature since Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25 (1827: 215)].
• Specotera Giebel, 1877.
• Sphecoteres Vieillot, L.P. 1818. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'Agriculture, à l'Écomomie rurale et domestique, à la Médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle Édition. Paris : Déterville Vol. 24. [114] [presumed unjustified emendation of Sphecotheres Vieillot, 1816].
• Sphecothera Stephens, J.F. 1817. In, General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, commenced by the late George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & C. Aves. London : G. Wilkie Vol. X Pt II xxxi pp. 317-765 pls 30-60. [published Sept.] [480] [presumed unjustified emendation of Sphecotheres Vieillot, 1816].
• Sphecotheras Nitzsch, C.L. 1840. System der Pterylographie von C. L. Nitzsch. Nach seinen handschriftlich aufbewahrten Untersuchungen verfasst von H. Burmeister, &c. Halle xii 228 pp. [114] [presumed incorrect subsequent spelling of Sphecotheres Vieillot, 1816].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
  • Kei Islands
• Papua New Guinea

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)