The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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HENICORHINA

(Troglodytidae; White-breasted Wood Wren H. leucosticta prostheleuca) Gr. ἑνικος henikos  singular; ῥις rhis, ῥινος  rhinos  nostrils (see Heterorhina); "HENICORHINA LEUCOSTICTA.   ...  Baird's term Heterorhina for this group having been employed in the Coleoptera by Westwood in 1845, we propose to change it to Henicorhina." (P. Sclater & Salvin 1868); "Henicorhina P. Sclater and Salvin, 1868, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 170. New name for Heterorhina Baird, 1864, not of Westwood, 1842 (Coleoptera)." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Heterorhina.


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