Brotogeris chiriri (Vieillot)

587. Brotogeris chiriri (Vieillot) View in CoL

Quaternary – MG

Brotogerys xanthoptera – Winge 1887: 40.

Brotogerys xanthoptera – Goeldi 1894: 129.

Brotogerys xanthoptera – Lambrecht 1933: 770.

Forpus coelestis View in CoL – Brodkorb 1971: 213.

Forpus coelestis View in CoL [ Brotogerys xanthoptera ] – Mones 1986: 95. Forpus coelestis View in CoL – Cuello 1988: 53.

Brotogeris chiriri View in CoL – Boles 2017: 10.

Brotogeris chiriri View in CoL – Nascimento and Silveira 2020: 495.

Winge (1887) reported several individuals from Lapa da Escrivânia V, represented by the coracoid, humerus, ulna, and femur (the last one the most uncertain). There is also a humerus from Lapa da Lagoa do Sumidouro and several bones of recent age [28] linked by soft tissues, including a humerus still attached to the scapula and the coracoid.

Brodkorb (1971) associated this record with Forpus coelestis . Regarding this, Cuello (1988: 53) noted that, since this species was never recorded in Brazil, “it is likely that Winge’s designation may be referred to some form of Forpus xanthopterygius ”.

The names Brotogerys xanthoptera (Spix) of Winge and the one that guided him, Conurus xanthopterus (Spix) of Reinhardt (1870) (originally Aratinga xanthopterus Spix 1824: 31 , not Psittaculus xanthopterygius Spix 1824: 38 ) are synonymous with Brotogeris chiriri ( Hellmayr 1906) . Krabbe (2007), while reviewing the skins collected by Lund and Reinhardt, associated the name Conurus xanthopterus of Reinhardt with Brotogeris chiriri chiriri , while Forpus xanthopterygius was associated with Psittacula passerina (L.) (= Forpus passerinus ) of Reinhardt (1870).