The Key to Scientific Names
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Pallenia (See: Pallene)
Pallene (Apodidae; syn. Hirundapus † Brown-backed Needletail H. giganteus). Gr. Pallene, an Attic deme or township. In ornithology Attic place-names and persons were commonly coined for genera and species of swallows and swifts; "III. Les PALLÈNES 1 sont des martinets à tarses alongés et robustes, entièrement nus jusqu'au talon. ... 1º Le géant ... 2º Le vieillard ... 3º Le blanc-col ... Cypselus giganteus, Van Hass., Temm., pl. 364. ... C. senex, Temm., pl. 397. ... Cypselus colaris [sic], Wied., it., t. I, p. 108; Temm., pl. 195; hirundo albicollis, Vieill., Gal., pl. 120. ... 1 Pallène (nom mythologique)." (Lesson, 1837, Compl. de Buffon, VIII, p. 493 (vernacular name only)); "PALLENE Less. (1837). Cypselus, Van Hass. P. giganteus, (Van Hass.) Less., Pl. col. 364." (G. Gray 1841); "Pallene "Less." G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 11 (not of Megerle, 1823 (Lepidoptera)). Type, by original designation, P. giganteus (Van Hass.) Less., i.e. Cypselus giganteus "V. Hass." Temminck, 1825." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Pallenia, Pallenis.- Pallenia
(Apodidae; syn. Hirundapus † Brown-backed Needletail H. giganteus) Gr. Pallene, an Attic deme or township (see Pallene); “3. Pallenia, Bp. 5. senex, Temm. 6. gigantea, v. Hass. (caudacuta, Blyth.) 7. fusca, Shaw. (australis, Steph. macroptera, Sw. caudacuta? Gould nec Lath.) a. ciris. Pall. 8. nudipes, Hodgs. (leuconotus, Deless. fusca, Blyth, nec Sh.)” (Bonaparte 1857); “Pallenia Bonaparte, 1857, Rivista Contemporanea. Torino, IX, fascicolo 40, p. 212. Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1869, Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds, I, p. 67), Cypselus gigantea van Hasselt, i.e. Temminck, 1825. Although Bonaparte did not acknowledge the homonymy, Gray treated this as a new name for Pallene Lesson, 1837, not of Megerle, 1823 (Lepidoptera).” (JAJ 2023).
