Red-winged prinia
| Red-winged prinia | |
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| Eating grasshopper, in Gambia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Prinia |
| Species: | P. erythroptera |
| Binomial name | |
| Prinia erythroptera (Jardine, 1849) | |
The red-winged prinia or the red-winged warbler (Prinia erythroptera) is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It formerly belonged in the monotypic genus Heliolais. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Taxonomy
The red-winged prinia was described by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine in 1849 under the binomial name Drymoica erythroptera. The type locality is West Africa. The specific epithet erythroptera comes from the Ancient Greek eruthros for "red" and -pteros, "-winged".
There are four subspecies:
- P. e. erythroptera (Jardine, 1849) – Senegal to northern Cameroon
- P. e. jodoptera (Heuglin, 1864) – central Cameroon to southern Sudan and northwestern Uganda
- P. e. major (Blundell & Lovat, 1899) – Ethiopia
- P. e. rhodoptera (Shelley, 1880) – Kenya to eastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Most taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Heliolais. Support for this alternative placement is provided by a molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 that found that the red-winged warbler was closely related to the prinias.
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2016). "Prinia erythroptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22713671A94385480. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22713671A94385480.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ↑ Jardine, William (1849). Contributions to Ornithology for 1849. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. p. 15.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 151.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Ryan, P.; Dean, R. (2017). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Red-winged Prinia (Prinia erythroptera)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Lepage, Denis. "Red-winged Warbler". Avibase. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
- ↑ Olsson, U.; Irestedt, M.; Sangster, G.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Alström, P. (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3): 790–9. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004. PMID 23159891.
External links
- Red-winged warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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