Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae
Author
LeCroy, M.
text
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2008
2008-07-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/313.1
journal article
10.1206/313.1
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Myiagra nupta
Hartert
Myiagra nupta
Hartert, 1898d: 526
(Sudest Island).
Now
Myiagra cyanoleuca
(Vieillot, 1818)
. See
Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 316
, and del
Hoyo et al., 2006: 320
.
LECTOTYPE
:
AMNH 653241
, adult male, collected on
Tacuta
(
5
Sudest
) Island,
11.30S
,
153.30E
(
Papua New Guinea
, 1984
),
Louisiade Archipelago
,
Milne Bay Province
,
Papua New Guinea
, on
16 April 1898
, by
Albert S. Meek
(no. 1738).
COMMENTS
: No type was designated in the original description, with Hartert only mentioning that he had a male and a female.
Hartert (1920: 500)
listed the male, Meek number 1738, as the type of
nupta
, thereby designating it the
lectotype
. The female
paralectotype
is AMNH 653244.