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Sporopipes frontalis subsp. loitanus van Someren

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) American Museum of Natural History

Description

Sporopipes frontalis loitanus van Someren

Sporopipes frontalis loitanus van Someren, 1919: 54 (Loita).

Now Sporopipes frontalis emini Neumann, 1900. See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 533; Dickinson, 2003: 719; Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65; and Craig, 2010: 137.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722610, adult female (not male, as in original description), collected at Loita, ca. 01.40S, 35.40E (Polhill, 1988), Kenya, on 8 July 1918. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type, with the above data, was in the Rothschild Collection and that 18 specimens were collected. Four additional specimens from the V.G.L. van Someren Collection, collected before the publication of loitanus, came to AMNH. I consider them paratypes: Loita, AMNH 722609, male, 10 July 1918, collected by A. Blayney Percival; Kacheliba, AMNH 722617, male, AMNH 722618, female, 11 June 1917; Maktau, AMNH 722619, male, 23 June 1918. Hartert did not list this holotype in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.

PLOCEINAE

Notes

Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4629954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH
Material sample ID
AMNH 722609 , AMNH 722610 , AMNH 722617, AMNH 722618 , AMNH 722619
Event date
1917-06-11 , 1918-06-23 , 1918-07-08 , 1918-07-10
Verbatim event date
1917-06-11 , 1918-06-23 , 1918-07-08 , 1918-07-10
Scientific name authorship
van Someren
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Ploceidae
Genus
Sporopipes
Species
loitanus
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Type status
holotype , paratype

References

  • van Someren, V. G. L. 1919. [Dr. van Someren exhibited and described the following new birds from Uganda and British East Africa: -]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 40: 52 - 58.
  • Moreau, R. E., and J. C. Greenway, Jr. 1962. Family Ploceidae. In E. Mayr and J. C. Greenway, Jr. (editors). Check-list of birds of the world, 15: 3 - 75. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, x + 315 pp.
  • Zimmerman, D. A., D. A. Turner, and D. J. Pearson. 1999. Birds of Kenya and northern Tanzania. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 576 pp, 124 pls.
  • Dickinson, E. C. 2003. The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, 3 rd ed. London: Christopher Helm, 1039 pp.
  • Fry, C. H. and S. Keith (editors). 2004. The birds of Africa, vol. 7. Princeton: Princeton University Press, xxi + 666 pp, 36 pls.
  • Craig, A. J. F. K. 2010. Family Ploceidae (weavers), species accounts. In J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D. A. Christie (editors). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 15, weavers to New World warblers: 132 - 197. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 879 pp, 60 pls., photographs.
  • Polhill, D. 1988. Flora of tropical East Africa. Index of collecting localities. Kew, UK: Royal Botanic Gardens, 398 pp.