The Key to Scientific Names
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Bombycistomas (See: Bombycistoma)
Bombycistoma (Podargidae; syn. Batrachostomus Ϯ Large Frogmouth B. auritus) Zool. genus Bombyx Hübner, 1818, silk-moth < Gr. βομβυξ bombux silk; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; "I can hardly describe the colours of this bird better than by saying, it partakes of precisely the same met with in that well-known and beautiful moth, the Bombyx Atlas, upon which insect it is supposed to feed; and it is not improbable, for their localities are the same, and it will be seen how admirably adapted for a trap is its mouth. ... The nares being so different from the broad bills, and the supposition being, that it rests upon branches to receive and devour that immense moth, the "Bombyx Atlas," I would propose, should it be a new genus, naming it "Bombycistoma;" or should a more experienced naturalist discover a genus already named, the specific name I would call "Bombycivoras." If however it is as I believe entirely new, I would name it "Bombycistomas Fullertonii," after the late Governor of Prince of Wales' Island, whose kindness first led me to visit the Eastern Isles, and where I first imbibed my taste for Ornithology" (Hay 1841); "Bombycistoma Hay, 1841, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (II), p. 574. Type, by monotypy, Bombycistoma fullertonii Hay, 1841 = Podargus auritus J. Gray, 1829." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Bombycistomas, Bombycistomus, Bombysistomas.
