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 Cossypha signata Sundevall, 1850: 101 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. in Caffraria inferiore .” CURRENT STATUS: Cercotrichas signata signata ( Sundevall, 1850 ) ; Muscicapidae . Dickinson & Christidis (2014: 585) included tongensis (Roberts, 1931), but did not recognise oatleyi (Clancey, 1956) and reclusa ( Clancey, 1966 ). TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 101) mentioned both male and female in his type description. Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue shows that two specimens were available at the time. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 55) referred to NRM 569715 [6606] as a “type”; we treat this as a lectotype designation of this adult male (but noted as “?” in Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue, collected 25 June 1841 (according to the acquisition catalogue, but erroneously given as 2 June 1841 according to Gyldenstolpe1926: 55 ) at Umhlanga. The single paralectotype , NRM 534155 [6607], is a mounted female collected 30 June 1841 at Mgeni (Umgeni) River, near Durban. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Umhlanga , KwaZulu-Natal . COMMENTS: On 20 May 1841 Wahlberg was at Congella, Durban. There are no entries in his diary from this date until 3 June, when he went to Zeekoe Vley (Seekoeivlei, now known as Sea Cow Lake, about 1 km due north of the Mgeni River and immediately west of Durban North suburb) near Durban. He collected at the Mgeni River until 23 June, when he departed for Umhlanga.