Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa Author Dean, W. Richard J. 0000-0002-6541-3565 Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. wrjdean 01 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6541 - 3565 & Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. & South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa. wrjdean01@gmail.com Author Åhlander, Erik Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Author Johansson, Ulf S. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-12 5134 4 521 560 journal article 55543 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3 6cdcd17b-e695-4d2b-9f19-d6c2cf59a722 1175-5326 6541737 79D78E49-C127-4EB8-BEA2-784B0BC65363 Hyptiopus caffer Sundevall, 1850: 110 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Caffraria inferiore ”. CURRENT STATUS: Synonym of Aviceda cuculoides verreauxii Lafresnaye, 1846 ; Accipitridae ( Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 236 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: From Sundevall’s description (1850: 110) it appears that his new name is based on, firstly, the description of a single specimen by Kaup (1847: 344) , and secondly, by at least one adult male and a young female collected by Wahlberg. This is confirmed by Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue, according to which there seems to have been only a male and a female from Durban available. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 91) refers to NRM 569845 [7571] as a “type”, which we treat here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 27 February 1841 in Durban. The two paralectotypes are: NRM 538380 [7572], a mounted juvenile female collected 7 April 1840 in Durban; and Kaup’s specimen, now evidently missing. There is no known geographical origin of the missing Kaup specimen. Kaup (1847) states “this bird came as one specimen to London and was sold to a German, either a scientist or a dealer” [translation by Jörn Köhler]. During the period when Johann Jakob Kaup prepared his text on the genera of raptors, he was associated with the collection in Darmstadt (HLMD). It is uncertain if this specimen was ever in the Darmstadt collection, and there is no such specimen there today (Jörn Köhler, HLMD, in litt.). Although we have been unable to trace the Kaup specimen, it is not known to be lost. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , Kwa-Zulu Natal . COMMENTS: Date and place confirmed by journal entries.