Glycichaera fallax pallida Stresemann and Paludan, 1932: 15 (Waigeu).

Now Glycichaera fallax pallida Stresemann and Paludan, 1932. See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 340, Dickinson, 2003: 443, Driskell and Christidis, 2004, and Higgins et al., 2008: 654.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 301014, adult male, collected on Waigeo (5 Waigeu) Island, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 26 May 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1322) on the Expedition Stein.

COMMENTS: Stresemann and Paludan gave Stein’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, but did not say how many specimens they examined. Rothschild et al. (1932a: 146) later listed seven specimens, giving Stein’s field numbers. The expedition was jointly supported by Rothschild, L.C. Sanford for AMNH, and ZMB; all types were to come to AMNH and the rest of the collection was to be divided among the three collections. By the time the division was made, the Rothschild Collection had been purchased by AMNH, and twothirds of the collection came directly to AMNH. Paratypes in AMNH, all collected on Waigeo in 1931, are: females, AMNH 301015 (Stein no. 1323), 16 May; AMNH 301016 (1325), 16 May; AMNH 301017 (1324), 2 June; AMNH 301018 (1320), 11 June. Paratypes bearing Stein’s nos. 1321 and 1326 are probably in ZMB.

Stein did not publish his fieldnotes from this expedition, as his home and all of his notebooks were destroyed during World War II (Stresemann, 1967: 186). In his brief notes concerning his collecting localities, Stein (1933: 260–264, and in Rothschild et al., 1932a: 129–130) noted that on 20–28 May he and his wife were camped in the mountainous area behind Warmek, on Mayalibit Bay, 00.13S, 130.45E (USBGN, 1982a), at an altitude of about 300 m.

Molecular analysis by Driskell and Christidis (2004) did not support the close relationship between the genera Timeliopsis and Glycichaera proposed by Schodde and Mason (1999: 340).