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 Prodotiscus regulus Sundevall, 1850: 109 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ E Caffraria inferiori et superiori, sylvatica. ” CURRENT STATUS: Prodotiscus regulus regulus Sundevall, 1850 ; Indicatoridae ( Dickinson & Remsen 2013: 293 ) (includes peasei Ogilvie-Grant, 1901 and adustoides Clancey, 1952). TYPE MATERIAL: Both male and female are mentioned in Sundevall’s original description (1850: 109). According to his acquisition catalogue, seven specimens would have been available to him in 1850. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 79) referred to NRM 569750 [7422] as a “type”; treated here as a lectotype designation of this adult male, collected 6 November 1843 near Saulspoort. The six paralectotypes are: NRM 538527 [7421], a mount of a young male collected 4 June 1840 in Durban; NRM 569751 [7425], an adult female collected 21 May 1840 in Durban; NRM 534228 [7424], a mount of a female collected 27 June 1840 in Durban; NHMUK 1877.7.11.295 [7426], a female collected 25 Aug 1840 in Durban, sent on exchange to R.B. Sharpe (London) in 1871; a female [7423] collected in August (obscure text, possibly 18 August) 1840 in Durban, sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853; and RMNH 88696 [7427], an adult female collected in Durban, possibly 4 June 1840 (the date in Sundevall’s manuscript is illegible), sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Saulspoort (Mohoapoani), North West Province . COMMENTS: The original label on NRM 569751 is missing. Dates and places agree with the journal entries and Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue.