Kaempfer’s Tody-Tyrant

Kaempfer\'s Tody-Tyrant / Hemitriccus kaempferi

Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

Here the details of the Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant named bird below:

SCI Name:  Hemitriccus kaempferi
Protonym:  Idioptilon mirandae kaempferi Am.Mus.Novit. no.1605 p.8
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae /
Taxonomy Code:  kattyr1
Type Locality:  Salto Pirahy [= Pirai] , (Joinville [= Joinvile]), 450 ft., Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1953
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DEFINITIONS

HEMITRICCUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant H. diops) Gr. ἡμι- hēmi-  small  < ἡμισυς hēmisus  half; τρικκος trikkos  unidentified small bird. In ornithology triccus signifies tyrant flycatcher; "PHYLLOSCARTES   ...   In ihre Nähe würden zu stellen sein die Genera:  Hemitriccus Nob. (von ἡμι, halb und τρικκος = Todus).  (Musciphaga (!) Less. 1831).  Von Euscarthmus durch längere Flügel, stärken und breitern Schwanz und grössere Entwickelung der Bartborsten verschieden:   H. diops. — Muscicapa diops "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 144.1. — Todirostrum diops Lafr. R. Z. 1846. p. 365. 13. — Euscarthmus vilis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 490. — Muscicapa vilis Licht. in Mus. Berol. (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Hemitriccus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 52.  New name for Musciphaga Lesson, 1837, considered barbarous." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Hemitriscus.   
Synon. Andinotriccus, Bornscheinia, CampinaCeratotriccus, Euscarthmornis, Idioptilon, Inambariornis, Microcochlearius, Musciphaga, Snethlagea, Todirhamphus.

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Emil Kaempfer (b. 1889) German collector in Brazil 1926-1931 (Hemitriccus).