The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Horizorhinus

(Sylviidae; synSylvia  Dohrn's Warbler S. dohrni) Gr. ὁριζω horizō  to limit (i.e. short); ῥις rhis, ῥινος  rhinos  nose; "Rostrum mediocre, subrotundatum, carinatum, vix emarginatum, tomiis pallidis, subpellucidis; culmine apicem versus arcuato, deflexo, gonyde aute apicem adscendente; vibrissis vix ullis" (Hartlaub 1866); "The genus Cuphopterus Hartlaub is preoccupied in Hymenoptera by Cuphopterus Morawitz, and as there are no synonyms, it may be called Horizorhinus from ὁριζω, limito, and ῥις, nasus.  The type and only species is Cuphopterus dohrni Hartlaub, which should now be known as Horizorhinus dohrni (Hartlaub)." (Oberholser 1899); "Horizorhinus Oberholser, 1899, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 216.  New name for Cuphopterus Hartlaub, 1866 (June), not of Morawitz, 1866 (January) (Hymenoptera)." (JAJ 2021).


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