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 Drymoica procerula Sundevall, 1850: 104 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Caffraria. ” CURRENT STATUS: Synonym of Cisticola galactotes galactotes (Temminck, 1823) ; Cisticolidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 457 ) . TYPE MATERIAL: There is no indication in Sundevall’s original description (1850: 104) that he had more than a single specimen at hand, and there is only a single specimen in Sundevall’s manuscript acquisition catalogue. The description is based on a single holotype : NRM 568774 [6755] (cf. also Gyldenstolpe 1926: 42 ), a study skin of a juvenile male collected 25 May 1840 in Durban. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal . COMMENTS: There is no journal entry for this day. Wahlberg was in Durban from late March to early October 1840 .