The Key to Scientific Names
- Glauconympha
(Irenidae; syn. Irena Ϯ Asian Fairy-bluebird I. puella malayensis) Gr. γλαυκος glaukos blue-grey, glaucous, gleaming; νυμφη numphē nymph; "Glauconympha, gen. nov. Generic characters.—Similar to Irena Horsfield, but tail shorter, only three-fourths of the length of wing; lower tail-coverts much longer, falling short of end of tail by less than length of tarsus, and sometimes reaching even beyond the end of tail; and upper tail-coverts much longer, falling short of end of tail by not more than the length of tarsus. Type.—Irena cyanea Begbie. ... The species and subspecies referable to the new genus Glauconympha are as follows: Glauconympha turcosa (Walden). Glauconympha cyanea cyanea (Begbie). Glauconympha cyanea crinigera (Sharpe). Glauconympha cyanea megacyanea Oberholser." (Oberholser 1917); "Glauconympha Oberholser, 1917, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 7, p. 539. Type, by original designation, Irena (i.e. Muscicapa) cyanea Begbie = Irena malayensis Moore." (Delacour in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 307).
