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Lanius excubitor subsp. elegans Swainson 1832

Creators

  • 1. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, cascina Vigna, I- 10022 Carmagnola (Italy) g. boano @ gmail. com
  • 2. Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Économie verte et du Changement climatique, Avenue Pr. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
  • 3. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Stazzano, Villa Gardella, Via Aldo Fossati, 2, I- 15060 Stazzano (Italy)
  • 4. Université de Dédougou, UFR / Sciences appliquées et Technologiques, BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) and Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie animales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 5. Ministère des Mines et des Carrières, avenue de l'Indépendance, Koulouba, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Géoressources et de l'Environnement, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 6. Institut des Sciences de l'Environnement et du Développement rural (ISEDR), BP 176 Dédougou (Burkina Faso) Laboratoire de Biologie et Écologie végétales, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Boîte postale 7021, Ouagadougou 03 (Burkina Faso)
  • 7. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I- 10125 Torino (Italy)

Description

Lanius excubitor elegans Swainson, 1832

LITERATURE. — Dowsett (1993); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Dowsett et al. (2013).

FIELD DATA. — GBIF; WABD.

STATUS. — Afrotropical migrant.

REMARKS. — Often included in L. meridionalis (Temminck, 1820), now considered monotypic (del Hoyo & Collar, 2016), L. e. elegans is the only subspecies certainly present in Burkina Faso as a scarce dry season visitor (Balanca & de Visscher 1997; Borrow & Demey 2001). The presence of L. e. leucopygos Erhenberg, 1833, the subspecies breeding in Mali and Niger, in the extreme north of the Burkina Faso is also possible following Borrow & Demey (2014). The taxonomy of the L. excubitor complex is very complicated and not fully resolved (Olsson et al. 2010), and the assessment of Burkina Faso subspecies needs revision.

Notes

Published as part of Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, pp. 27-107 in Zoosystema 44 (2) on page 75, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2, http://zenodo.org/record/5999691

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Journal article: 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2 (DOI)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/E25387BB2E7CFFCAFF7B8C53FBCAF98D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/193322033 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/20727/taxon/E25387BB2E7CFFCAFF7B8C53FBCAF98D.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Laniidae
Genus
Lanius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Passeriformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Swainson
Species
elegans
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Lanius excubitor subsp. elegans Swainson, 1832 sec. Boano, Belemsobgo, Silvano, Hema, Belemsobgo, Dimobe & Pavia, 2022

References

  • DOWSETT R. J. 1993. - Afrotropical avifaunas: annotated country checklists, in DOWSETT R. J. & DOWSETT- LEMAIRE F. (eds). A Contribution to the Distribution and Taxonomy of Afrotropical and Malagasy birds Tauraco Research Report 5, Tauraco Press, Liege: 1 - 322.
  • BALANCA G. & DE VISSCHER M. - N. 1997. - Composition et evolution saisonniere d'un peuplement d'oiseaux au nord du Burkina Faso (Nord-Yatenga). Malimbus 19: 68 - 94.
  • BORROW N. & DEMEY R. 2001. - Birds of Western Africa. Christopher Helm, London, 832 p.
  • BORROW N. & DEMEY R. 2014. - Field Guide of the Birds of Western Africa. II edition. Christopher Helm, London, 592 p.
  • BALANCA G., CORNELIS D. & WILSON R. 2007. - Les oiseaux du complexe WAP. ECOPAS. Cirad, Montpellier.
  • SINCLAIR I. & RYAN P. 2010. - Birds of Africa south of the Sahara. II edition. Struik Nature, Cape Town, 768 p.
  • DOWSETT R. J., ATKINSON P. W. & CADDICK J. A. 2013. - Checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso: 1 - 12. https: // www. africanbirdclub. org / [accessed 14 October 2013].
  • HOYO J. DEL & COLLAR N. J. 2016. - HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2. Passerines. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, 1013 p.
  • OLSSON U., ALSTROM P., SVENSSON L., ALABADIAN M. & SUND- BERG P. 2010. - The Lanius excubitor (Aves, Passeriformes) conundrum - Taxonomic dilemma when molecular and nonmolecular data tell different stories. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 347 - 357.