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 Lamprotornis porphyroplevron Sundevall, 1850: 100 . VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ E Caffraria, ubi frequens .” CURRENT STATUS: Notopholia corrusca corrusca (Nordmann, 1835) ; Sturnidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 579 , which corrects the species name). TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 100) mentioned both male and female in his original description. According to his acquisition catalogue he had 11 specimens available. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 7–8) referred to NRM 568743 [6414] as a “type”; which we treat here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 21 August 1840 in Durban. The ten paralectotypes are: NRM 90172195 [4685], collected 16 June 1839 or 1840 in Durban; NRM 553765 [4690], an adult female collected 18 June 1839 in Durban; NRM 554882 [4692], a juvenile female collected 3 November 1839 in Durban; NRM 537724 [4687], a mounted male collected 8 December 1839 in Durban; a male [4686] without data was sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); a male [6423], collected in “Caffr.” before 1845 and sent as a gift to the high school in Örebro , Sweden , in 1857; a male [6424] without data sent as a gift to the high school in Uppsala in 1857; an adult female [4688], collected 4 July 1839 in Durban, sent as a gift to the high school in Oskarshamn, Sweden , in 1865; an adult female [4689] collected 16 June 1839 in Durban, and sent as a gift to the high school in Falun, Sweden , in 1865; and an adult female [4691], collected 8 December 1839 in Durban, and sent as a gift to the high school in Jönköping , Sweden , in 1865. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal . COMMENTS: Wahlberg’s journal and labelled specimens show that he was in Durban from March to early October 1840 .