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 Anthus caffer Sundevall, 1850: 100 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “[Södra Afrika] Hab. cum priore, in sylvis, ubi nidum in gramine, ut A. arboreus , construit .”; [ A. arboreus = Anthus trivialis (Linnaeus, 1758) ]. CURRENT STATUS: Anthus caffer caffer Sundevall, 1850 ; Motacillidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 308 ) . TYPE MATERIAL:Sundevall in his original description(1850:100)gave no indication that his species was based on more than one specimen . According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue the original type series consisted of five specimens . Gyldenstolpe (1926: 29–30) referred to NRM 568734 [6550] as a “type”, which we treat as a lectotype designation of this adult female collected 25 October 1843 at a nest with an egg at Saulspoort (Mohoapoani). The four paralectotypes are: NRM 90169390 [6551], a juvenile male collected 24 November 1841 in Magaliesberg ; NRM 553434 [6552], a male collected 24 November 1841 in Magaliesberg ; RMNH. AVES .88943.x [6549]; a female collected 26 November 1841 in Magaliesberg , sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; and one female [6553] collected 26 November 1841 in Magaliesberg , sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer present in the ZMB collection) . VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Saulspoort (Mohoapoani), North West Province . COMMENTS: Date and place agree with the journal entries.