Cecropis daurica (Laxmann, 1769)

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, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 84

Cecropis daurica (Laxmann, 1769)

( Figs 22 ; 23 ).

LITERATURE. — Green & Sayer (1979); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Dowsett (1993); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002c); Balanca et al. (2007); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).

FIELD DATA. — GBIF.

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — USNM 533788.

STATUS. — Two subspecies present: C. d. domicella (Heuglin, 1869), Resident, and C. d. rufula (Temminck, 1835), Palaearctic migrant.

REMARKS. — Most of the authors refer to the species as a whole. According to Borrow & Demey (2014) and Pavia et al. (2012) in Burkina Faso the species is present with both the Resident African C. d. domicella and the Palaearctic migrant C. d. rufula, as documented here ( Figs 22 , 23 ).

Figures

FIG. 22. — Cecropis daurica rufula (Temminck,1835), Karfiguela Falls,Banfora, Cascade Region, 14.III.2011 (photo M. Pavia).

FIG. 23. — Cecropis daurica domicella (Heuglin,1869),Karfiguela Falls,Banfora, Cascade Region, 14.III.2011 (photo M. Pavia).