Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)
Red-throated Myzomela (Myzomela eques) - HBW 13, p. 637
French:
Myzomèle à menton rouge
German: Dolchstich-Honigfresser
Spanish: Mielero Barbirrojo
Other common names: Red-throated/Ruby-throated/Red-spot Honeyeater,
Ruby-throated/Red-spot(ted)/Red-chinned Myzomela
Taxonomy: Cinnyris eques
Lesson and Garnot, 1827, Waigeo, West Papuan Islands, off north-west
New Guinea.
Forms
a superspecies with M. blasii, M. albigula, M.
cineracea and M. obscura. Often treated as conspeciefic
with M. cineracea. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- eques (Lesson & Garnot, 1827) - West Papuan Is (Waigeo, Salawati, Misool) and NW New Guinea (Vogelkop and Onin Peninsula).
- primitiva Stresemann & Paludan, 1932 - N New Guinea from Geelvink Bay E to Astrolabe Bay.
- nymani Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1903 - S & E New Guinea (E from Vogelkop-Mimika R on S coast and from Huon Gulf on N coast).
- karimuiensis Diamond, 1967 - Karimui, in Eastern Highlands (E New Guinea).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird feeding.
Locality Taja, Jayapura Regency, West Papua (Indonesia), New Guinea (ssp primitiva)
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