Muscicapara d'Orbigny 1840
Admittedly,
Muscicapara "is" in the Key; but it is currently not given the status of a name in its own right, only that of variant of
Muscicapa -- which I have a hard time agreeing with. So I'll pretend that it qualifies for this thread.
Muscicapara d'Orbigny 1840
d'Orbigny AD. 1835-1844. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la République orientale de l'Uruguay, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou). Tome quatrième. 3e partie: oiseaux. P Bertrand, Paris.
p. 323:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43586223
Genre 7. GOBE-MOUCHES PAROÏDES, Muscicapara, Nob.
Ce sont, en général, de petites espèces à bec assez faible, court, peu déprimé, la tête petite, les ailes longues, les doigts longs et forts, la queue courte. Toutes sont forestières ou buissonnières, se tiennent cachées dans l'intérieur des fourrés, qu'elles parcourent continuellement en y chassant les insectes, se cramponnant aux branches comme les Mésanges, sans jamais descendre à terre. On les trouve dans les régions chaudes et tempérées situées à l'est des Andes.
For a group called "gobe-mouches paroïdes" (i.e., tit-like flycatchers – the generic name itself being presumably a portmanteau of
Muscicapa and
Parus) (cf. Lesson's "moucherolles paroïdes",
Paroides,
https://books.google.com/books?id=R1o2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA385). Authorship definitely claimed by d'Orbigny here ("Nob."): certainly not a slip for
Muscicapa, or any other already established name. The group was quite heterogeneous ("composite") by today's standards, which is perhaps one of the reasons why it ended up being ignored by some/many.
Originally included species:
- Muscicapara oleaginea = Muscicapa oleaginea Lichtenstein 1823 (now in Mionectes Cabanis 1844),
- Muscicapara striaticollis = Muscicapa striaticollis d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 (now in Mionectes Cabanis 1844),
- Muscicapara vermivora = Sylvia vermivora Gmelin 1789 (now in Helmitheros Rafinesque 1819 – Parulidae),
- Muscicapara bivittata = Muscicapa bivittata d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 (now in Myiothlypis Cabanis 1850 – Parulidae),
- Muscicapara viridicata = Muscicapa viridicata Vieillot 1817 (now in Myiopagis Salvin & Godman 1888),
- Muscicapara angustirostris = Muscicapa angustirostris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 (now [as a ssp] in Phylloscartes Cabanis & Heine 1860),
- Muscicapara gaimardii = Muscicapara gaimardii d'Orbigny 1840, now in Myiopagis Salvin & Godman 1888),
- Muscicapara subcristata = Sylvia subcristata Vieillot 1817 (now in Serpophaga Gould 1839),
- Muscicapara leucophrys = Muscicapa leucophrys d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 (now in Ochthoeca Cabanis 1847),
- Muscicapara stramineoventris = Muscicapa stramineoventris d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 (syn. Sylvia pectoralis Vieillot 1817, see Rothschild 1925 https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3243454, now in Polystictus Reichenbach 1850),
- Muscicapara obsoleta = Muscicapa obsoleta Temminck 1824 (now in Camptostoma Sclater 1857),
- Muscicapara ventralis = Muscicapa ventralis Temminck 1824 (now in Phylloscartes Cabanis & Heine 1860),
- Muscicapara boliviana = Muscicapara boliviana d'Orbigny 1840 (new name for Muscicapa olivacea d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye 1837 [nec Linnaeus], now in Zimmerius Traylor 1977).
This name was listed by Sherborn
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36253414, Waterhouse
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22649304, Neave
http://ubio.org/NZ/PDF/Vol3/pg0229.png, but appears completely omitted in the Richmond Index. (I double checked.
)
(Of the other two generic names that elsewhere are attributed to d'Orbigny 1840,
Arundinicola [
OD] and
Suiriri [
OD], the first is also omitted in the Richmond Index, and the second only has a card pointing to a later use of the name by Strickland.
Muscicapara gaimardii and
Muscicapara boliviana are also omitted from the "species and subspecies" part of the Index. So it seems that it's the work as a whole that was being ignored by Richmond.)
Gray made
Muscicapara a synonym of
Elania/Elaenia (repeatedly) and of
Helinaia (once, 1841, for the Parulidae part of the original group); it was as well made a synonym of
Elainea by Giebel 1875 (
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48112340; Giebel here also distributed the originally included species into various genera:
Elainea,
Serpophaga,
Euscarthmus,
Setophaga -- in a rather inconsistent way, I think; e.g.,
bivittata to
Elainea, thus retained as a tyrant flycatcher, but
viridicata to
Setophaga, thus made a wood-warbler).
The rest of the literature seems basically to have ignored it as a generic name --
Muscicapara appears in many species synonymies (it is part of the original combination of two names that are currently in use), but was apparently not treated as a genus-group name in its own right, and was omitted from the generic synonymies.
I found no published type designation.