Waxbills (Estrildidae)

White-rumped Munia (Lonchura striata) - HBW 15, p. 367

French: Capucin domino German: Spitzschwanz-Bronzemännchen Spanish: Capuchino Culiblanco
Other common names: Sharp-tailed/Long-tailed/Striated/White-backed/Hodgson's Munia, White-rumped Mannikin, Striated Mannikin/Finch; Bengalese Munia (races other than nominate); Bengalee, Bengalese/Society Finch (domesticated varieties)

Taxonomy: Loxia striata Linnaeus, 1766, Bourbon Island [=Reunion]; error = Sri Lanka.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with L. leucogastroides. All races apart from nominate sometimes considered a separate species, but the two forms appear to intergrade in SE India. Taiwan population sometimes separated as race phaethontoptila, but appear hardly different from swinhoei, and therefore included within latter. Proposed race explita, a replacement for preoccupied sumatrensis (described from Tanjong Kassan, in Sumatra), is treated as a synonym of subsquamicollis. Six subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

striata ( Linnaeus, 1766) - W & NE peninsular India, and Sri Lanka.
acuticauda ( Hodgson, 1836) - N India (E from Uttarakhand) and S Nepal E in Himalayan foothills to Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar (except S), NW Thailand, N Laos and NW Vietnam (W Tonkin).
fumigata ( Walden, 1873) - Andaman Is.

See all 6 subspecies

striata ( Linnaeus, 1766) - W & NE peninsular India, and Sri Lanka.
acuticauda ( Hodgson, 1836) - N India (E from Uttarakhand) and S Nepal E in Himalayan foothills to Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar (except S), NW Thailand, N Laos and NW Vietnam (W Tonkin).
fumigata ( Walden, 1873) - Andaman Is.
semistriata ( Hume, 1874) - Nicobar Is.
subsquamicollis ( Stuart Baker, 1925) - S Myanmar (Tenasserim), Thailand (except NW), C & S Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia S to Singapore, Sumatra and Bangka I.
swinhoei ( Cabanis, 1882) - S & SE China (E from Yunnan), NE Vietnam (E Tonkin), Hainan I and Taiwan.