Sphecotheres flaviventris audoni Mathews

Sphecotheres flaviventris audoni Mathews, 1912a: 436 (Cairns, Queensland).

Now from a zone of intergradation between Sphecotheres v. vieilloti and S. v. flaviventris . See Mathews, 1930: 862; Greenway, 1962: 136; Ford, 1975; 1982; 1987; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 595–597; and Walther and Jones, 2008: 715–716.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 671371, adult male, collected at Cairns, 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, in July 1908, by P. Schrader. From the Mathews Collection (no. 6011) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, after his catalog number of the holotype, Mathews gave the range of the form as ‘‘ Queensland (Cairns).’’ The following Cairns specimens collected by Schrader are paratypes: AMNH 671368–671370, 671373, 671374, 671376 (Mathews catalog nos. 3599– 3603, 6012), four males, two females, collected July–November 1908 . The number 853 that appears on Mathews’ labels refers to the number of this species in Mathews (1908). Three specimens collected in 1884 by Bowyer-Bower were not cataloged by Mathews until after the publication date of audoni. Already by 1913, he considered audoni a synonym of S. f. flaviventris (Mathews, 1913a: 307) .