Australasian Robins (Petroicidae)
Lemon-bellied Flyrobin (Microeca flavigaster) - HBW 12, p. 487
French: Miro à ventre citron
German: Gelbbrustschnäpper
Spanish: Petroica Limón
Other common names: Lemon-bellied Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied/Yellow-breasted Flycatcher/Flyrobin, Lemon-breasted Microeca/Flycatcher/Flycatcher-robin; Brown-tailed/Kimberley Flycatcher/Flyrobin (tormenti)
Taxonomy: Microeca flavigaster Gould, 1843, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
Possibly closest to M. hemixantha, which is regarded by many as a brighter island representative of present species. Race tormenti formerly treated as a separate species, but allegedly intergrades with nominate on E boundary of range; in view of differences in plumage and habitat preferences between the two, however, taxonomic relationship between them merits reinvestigation. Proposed race terraereginae, described from Cairns, in N Queensland (Australia), is based on what is considered an indeterminate specimen that appears intermediate between populations to N and to S o.. View all taxonomy...
Possibly closest to M. hemixantha, which is regarded by many as a brighter island representative of present species. Race tormenti formerly treated as a separate species, but allegedly intergrades with nominate on E boundary of range; in view of differences in plumage and habitat preferences between the two, however, taxonomic relationship between them merits reinvestigation. Proposed race terraereginae, described from Cairns, in N Queensland (Australia), is based on what is considered an indeterminate specimen that appears intermediate between populations to N and to S of it. Six subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- laeta Salvadori, 1878 - N New Guinea: Wandammen, W coast of Geelvink Bay, Victor Emanuel Mts and Astrolabe Bay region.
- tarara Rand, 1940 - coast of SW New Guinea (S from R Mimika to R Wassi Kussa).
- flavissima Schodde & Mason, 1999 - SE New Guinea, islands in Torres Strait and NE Australia (Cape York Peninsula).
- laeta Salvadori, 1878 - N New Guinea: Wandammen, W coast of Geelvink Bay, Victor Emanuel Mts and Astrolabe Bay region.
- tarara Rand, 1940 - coast of SW New Guinea (S from R Mimika to R Wassi Kussa).
- flavissima Schodde & Mason, 1999 - SE New Guinea, islands in Torres Strait and NE Australia (Cape York Peninsula).
- tormenti Mathews, 1916 - NW Australia: coastal N Western Australia (King Sound E to Napier Broome Bay).
- flavigaster Gould, 1843 - NC Australia: N Northern Territory.
- laetissima Rothschild, 1916 - NE Australia (Cairns district of NE Queensland).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird perched on the top of a thin branch and looking around Locality Broadwater Conservation Park, Queensland, Australia (ssp laetissima)
Eldert Groenewoud 31 July 2007 4 years ago 19 sec 4.4
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perched
Locality Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp flavigaster)
Georges Olioso 14 September 2007 3 years ago 4 -
Inquisitive visitor
Locality Mataranka, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp flavigaster)
Lindsay Hansch 24 August 2008 2 years ago 3.3
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