Island leaf warbler
| Island leaf warbler | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Phylloscopidae |
| Genus: | Phylloscopus |
| Species: | P. poliocephalus |
| Binomial name | |
| Phylloscopus poliocephalus (Salvadori, 1876) | |
The island leaf warbler (Phylloscopus poliocephalus) is a species of Old World warbler in the family Phylloscopidae. It is found in an area ranging from the Moluccas to the Solomon Islands.
Taxonomy
[edit]The island leaf warbler was formally described in 1876 as Gerygone? poliocephala by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains of western New Guinea.[2][3] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek πολιος/polios meaning "grey" or "grizzled" with -κεφαλος/-kephalos meaning "-headed".[4] The island leaf warbler is now one of around 80 leaf warblers placed in the genus Phylloscopus that was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie.[5]
Eighteen subspecies are recognised:[5]
- P. p. suaramerdu Rheindt, FE, Prawiradilaga, DM, Ashari, H, Suparno & Ng, NSR, 2020 – montane Peleng, in Banggai Island (off eastern Sulawesi) (Peleng leaf warbler)[6]
- P. p. emilsalimi Rheindt, FE, Prawiradilaga, DM, Ashari, H, Suparno & Ng, NSR, 2020 – montane Taliabu (Sula Islands) (Taliabu leaf warbler)[6]
- P. p. henrietta Stresemann, EFT, 1931 – northern Moluccas (Halmahera and Ternate)
- P. p. waterstradti (Hartert, EJO, 1903) – montane Moluccas (Bacan Islands and Obi Islands)
- P. p. everetti (Hartert, EJO, 1899) – montane Buru (southern Moluccas)
- P. p. ceramensis (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1910) – montane southern Moluccas (Seram and Ambon)
- P. p. avicola Hartert, EJO, 1924 – montane Kai Besar Island (Kai Islands)
- P. p. matthiae Rothschild, LW & Hartert, EJO, 1924 – Mussau Island, in St. Matthias Group (north-central Bismarck Archipelago)
- P. p. moorhousei Gilliard, ET & LeCroy, MK, 1967 – montane New Britain and Umboi Island (southeastern Bismarck Archipelago)
- P. p. leletensis Salomonsen, F, 1965 – montane New Ireland (northeastern Bismarck Archipelago)
- P. p. poliocephalus (Salvadori, AT, 1876) – montane northwestern New Guinea (Tamrau, Arfak, and Wandammen mountains)
- P. p. albigularis Hartert, EJO & Paludan, KJ, 1936 – montane west-central New Guinea
- P. p. cyclopum Hartert, EJO, 1930 – montane northern New Guinea (Cyclops Mountains)
- P. p. giulianettii (Salvadori, AT, 1896) – montane New Guinea (Snow, Sepik, Saruwaged, and Herzog mountains)
- P. p. hamlini Mayr, E & Rand, AL, 1935 – Goodenough Island, in D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (off southeastern New Guinea)
- P. p. becki Hartert, EJO, 1929 – montane Guadalcanal, Santa Isabel, and Malaita (central Solomon Islands)
- P. p. bougainvillei Mayr, E, 1935 – montane Bougainville Island (northwestern Solomon Islands)
- P. p. pallescens Mayr, E, 1935 – montane Kolombangara (west-central Solomon Islands)
References
[edit]- ↑ BirdLife International. (2024). "Phylloscopus poliocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024 e.T103866004A264178023. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T103866004A264178023.en. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ Salvadori, Tommaso (1875). "Descrizione di cinquantotto nuove specie di uccelli, ed osservazioni intorno ad altre poco note, della Nuova Guinea e di altre Isole Papuane, raccolte dal Dr. Opoarpo Reccari e dai cacciatori del Sig. A.A. Bruijn". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian and Latin). 7 (published 1876): 896–976 [960].
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 254.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. "poliocephalus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- 1 2 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 28 November 2025.
- 1 2 Rheindt, F.E.; Prawiradilaga, D.M.; Ashari, H.; Suparno; Gwee, C.Y.; Lee, G.W.X.; Wu, M.Y.; Ng, N.S.R. (2020). "A lost world in Wallacea: description of a montane archipelagic avifauna". Science. 367 (6474): 167–170. doi:10.1126/science.aax2146. See supplement.
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