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 Eremomela scotops Sundevall, 1850: 103 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. in Caffraria superiori (25 °). ” CURRENT STATUS: Eremomela scotops scotops Sundevall, 1850 ; Cisticolidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 450 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 103) , in his original description, gave no indication that he had more than a single specimen at hand. From Sundevall’s manuscript catalogues, however, he apparently had three specimens . Gyldenstolpe (1926: 50) referred to NRM 569702 [6703] as a “type”; we treat this as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 24 November 1843 at Saulspoort (Mohapoani). The two paralectotypes are: NRM 537661 [6704], a mounted female collected 13 October 1843 at Saulspoort; and a male [6702] collected 24 November 1841 in the Magaliesberg, exchanged to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection). VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Saulspoort (Witfontein Berge, Mohoapoani), North West Province . COMMENTS: Date and place agree with the journal entries.