Editing Common grasshopper warbler (section)

==Taxonomy==
The Italian naturalist [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]] included the common grasshopper warbler in the second volume of his ''Ornithologiae''. Aldrovandi died in 1605 but the volume was not published until 1637.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Aldrovandi| first=Ulisse | author-link=Ulisse Aldrovandi | year=1637 | title=Vlyssis Aldrovandi philosophi ac medici Bononiensis historiam naturalem in gymnasio Bononiensi profitentis, Ornithologiae | volume=2 | language=la | place=Bononiae (Bologna, Italy) | publisher=Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem | pages=733–734 Lib. 17 Cap. 28 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53872365 }}</ref> In 1760 the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] included a detailed description of the common grasshopper warbler in his ''Ornithologie''. He used the French name ''La fauvette tachetée'' and the Latin name ''Curruca naevia'' but although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial system]] and are not recognised by the [[International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]].<ref name=allen>{{cite journal |last=Allen | first=J.A. | author-link=Joel Asaph Allen | year=1910 | title=Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=28 | pages=317–335 | hdl=2246/678}}</ref>

Its first formal scientific description was by the French polymath [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] in 1779 in his ''[[Histoire Naturelle|Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux]]''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1779 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=9 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | pages=215–217 | chapter=La fauvette tachetée | language=fr | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42301992 }}</ref> The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by [[François-Nicolas Martinet]] in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of [[Edme-Louis Daubenton]] to accompany Buffon's text.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis  | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | chapter=La fauvette tachetée | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle | volume=6 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | at=Plate 581 Fig. 3 | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35214367 }}</ref>  Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist [[Pieter Boddaert]] coined the [[binomial name]] ''Motacilla naevia'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''; he used the word ''naevia'' that had earlier been used by Brisson.<ref>{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | place=Utrecht | page=35, Number 581 Fig. 3 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822655 | language=fr }}</ref> 
The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is [[Bologna]] in Italy.<ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=51 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483752 }}</ref> The common grasshopper warbler is now one of 20 species placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Locustella]]'' that was described by the German naturalist [[Johann Jakob Kaup]] in 1829 with the common grasshopper warbler as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Kaup | first=Johann Jakob | author-link=Johann Jakob Kaup | year=1829 | title=Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Naturliches System der Europaischen Thierwelt | volume=1 | language=de | location=Darmstadt | publisher=Carl Wilhelm Leske | page=115 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41576538 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas, allies | website=IOC World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grassbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=28 August 2019 }}</ref> The genus name ''Locustella'' is from [[Latin]] and is a diminutive of ''locusta'',  "grasshopper". The specific ''naevia'' is Latin for "spotted".<ref name=job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages= 229, 265}}</ref>

Three [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>
* ''L. n. naevia'' ([[Pieter Boddaert|Boddaert]], 1783) – Europe to west European Russia and Ukraine; wintering in the [[Sahel]] region of Africa
* ''L. n. straminea'' [[Henry Seebohm|Seebohm]], 1881 – east European Russia to southwest, south central Siberia, east Kazakhstan, west Mongolia and northwest China; wintering in south Asia; [[synonymy (biology)|synonym]] ''L. n. mongolica''
* ''L. n. obscurior'' [[Sergei Buturlin|Buturlin]], 1929 – east Turkey and the Caucasus