The Key to Scientific Names
- Scoptelus
(Phoeniculidae; syn. Rhinopomastus † Black Scimitarbill R. aterrimus) Gr. σκωπτηλος skōptēlos mocker < σκωπτω skōptō to mock; the Black Scimitarbill has harsh, plaintive cries (cf. Afrikaans name “Kakelaar” chatterer, for the Green Wood-hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus); "Gen. SCOPTELUS **) Nob. — Lachhopf. Irrisor Bp. 1854 (nec Less. 1831). 383. 1. S. aterrimus Nob. Promerops aterrimus Steph. Gen. Z. XIV. p. 257. — Nectarinia unicolor Licht. in Mus. Berol. — Epimachus unicolor Wagl. Isis 1829. p. 656. — Promerops pusillus Sws. B. W.-Afr. II. p. 128. — Irrisor unicolor Gray Gen. B. I. p. 90. 5. — Bp. Consp. I. p. 411. gen. 877. 5. — Rchb. Handb. I. p. 325. 762. — Rhinopomaster pusillus Bp. Consp. I. p. 411. 1. gen. 878. 2. — Rchb. Handb. I. p. 326. 764. — Irrisor pusillus Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 12. gen. 5. 13. — Hartl. Journ. Orn. 1854. p. 9. 100. — Id. Orn. Westafr. p. 43. 121. — ?Promerops cyanomelas Rüpp. (nec Vieill.) Syst. Übers. p. 28. 104. — Brehm Journ. Orn. 1853. p. 456. ... **) Von σκωπτηλος (Spötter) = Irrisor." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Scoptelus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Museum Heineanum, II, p. 129. New name for Irrisor "Less." Bonaparte, 1854, not of Lesson, 1830." (JAJ 2021).
