Diademed tanager
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Diademed tanager
| image = Stephanophorus diadematus.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Stephanophorus
| parent_authority = Strickland, 1841
| species = diadematus
| authority = (Temminck, 1823)
| synonyms = Tanagra diademata (protonym)
| range_map = Stephanophorus diadematus map.svg
}}
The diademed tanager (Stephanophorus diadematus) is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Stephanophorus. It is purple-blue with a white crown characterised by a small red patch, and it is found mostly in open areas in southern Brazil, northeast Argentina, and Uruguay.
Taxonomy
The diademed tanager was formally described and illustrated in 1823 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck under the binomial name Tanagra diademata.{{ cite book | last=Temminck | first=Coenraad Jacob | author-link=Coenraad Jacob Temminck | year=1838 | orig-year=1823 | title=Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon | volume=3 | at=Plate 257, Livraison 41 | publisher=F.G. Levrault | place=Paris | language=fr | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36704989 }} The 5 volumes were originally issued in 102 livraisons (parts), 1820-1839. For the publication date see: {{ cite journal | last=Dickinson | first=E.C. | author-link=Edward C. Dickinson | year=2001 | title=Systematic notes on Asian birds. 9. The Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées of Temminck & Laugier (1820–1839) | journal=Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden | volume=335 | pages=7–53 | url=http://repository.naturalis.nl/document/46425 }} The type locality is Curitiba in Brazil.{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=336 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483571 }} This is now the only species placed in the genus Stephanophorus that was introduced in 1841 by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland.{{ cite journal | last=Strickland | first=Hugh Edwin | author-link=Hugh Edwin Strickland | year=1841 | title=On some new genera of birds | journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | volume=Part 9 | pages=27–34 [30–31] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30679652 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Tanagers and allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/tanagers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=1 November 2020 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek stephanē meaning "diadem" and -phoros meaning "carrying". The specific epithet diadematus is Latin meaning "diademed".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=134, 365 }} The diademed tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Stephanophorus-diadematus Xenon-canto: audio recordings of the diademed tanager]
{{Passeroidea|T.|state=collapsed}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q931663}}
Category:Birds of the Atlantic Forest
Category:Birds of the Selva Misionera
Category:Birds of the South Region
{{Thraupidae-stub}}