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 Hirundo griseopyga Sundevall, 1850: 107 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. prope Portum Natal. ” CURRENT STATUS: Pseudhirundo griseopyga griseopyga ( Sundevall, 1850 ) ; Hirundinidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 476 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 107–108) gave no indication that he had more than a single specimen at hand for his very short description of the type. However, from his acquisition catalogue he apparently had three specimens available. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 69) referred to NRM 569781 [7066] as a “type”, and we treat this as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 19 May 1840 in Durban. The two paralectotypes are: NRM 90200199 [7067], a female collected 22 May 1840 in Durban; and RMNH. AVES .88915 [7068], a female collected 22 May 1840 in Durban, exchanged in 1850 to Leiden. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal . COMMENTS: There is no entry in the journal for this day, but date and place are in line with other specimens collected at the same time.