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 Xanthodira flavigula Sundevall, 1850: 98 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ In Caffraria superiori. ” CURRENT STATUS: Gymnoris superciliaris flavigula ( Sundevall, 1850 ) ; Passeridae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 307 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall commented on the small differences between the sexes (“ ♂ ♀ in ceteris similes ”) in his original description, which indicates that he had at least two specimens . According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue the original type series consisted of eight specimens . Gyldenstolpe (1926: 16) referred to NRM 568678 [6158] as a “type”, which we treat as a lectotype designation of this male collected 7 March 1842 at Tswaing (Saltpannen). The seven paralectotypes are: NRM 555258 [6159], a male collected 16 October 1843 at Saulspoort ; NRM 534103 [6160], a mounted female collected 1 August 1843 at Vaal River , probably Skandinawiedrif ; NRM 544441 [6392], a male collected 23 December 1841 at Magaliesberg ; NRM 544442 [6395], a female collected 20 October 1843 at Saulspoort ; NRM 544443 [6396], a male collected 1841–1843 in “Caffraria”; a female [6394] collected before 1845 in “Cafferland”, sent on exchange to Berlin (ZMB) in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); and a female [6393], collected before 1845 in “Cafferland”, sent on exchange to the University of Lund in 1850 (but not in the MZLU database) . VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Tswaing (Saltpannen), Gauteng Province . COMMENTS: Date and place agree with the journal entries. Type locality (erroneously) corrected to Hammanskraal by Gyldenstolpe (1934: 292) . Wahlberg’s journal does not have an entry for 7 March 1842 , but from 6 March to 9 April he camped at Tswaing.