Anomalospiza imberbis mukandakundae C.M.N. White

Anomalospiza imberbis mukandakundae C.M.N. White, 1946: 219 (Balovale).

Now Anomalospiza imberbis imberbis (Cabanis, 1868) . See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 75; Sorensen and Payne, 2001; Dickinson, 2003: 737; Fry and Keith, 2004: 417–419; and Payne, 2010: 219.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 704632, adult male, collected at Balovale, 13.30S, 23.06E (Times Atlas), Zambia (= Northern Rhodesia), on 10 January 1944, by C.M.N. White.

COMMENTS: In the original description, White designated as type of mukandakundae an adult male in his collection taken on 10 January 1944 and noted that he examined two males and one female. The above specimen was presented to AMNH by White (cataloged in 1953) and bears his type label in addition to that of AMNH. His two paratypes did not come to AMNH.

Anomalospiza imberbis was considered monotypic by Moreau and Greenway (1962: 75) and included at the end of the Ploceidae, where the name was misspelled ‘‘ makandakunae.’’ Now placed in the Viduidae following mitochondrial DNA studies by Sorensen and Payne (2001), it is considered monotypic by Dickinson (2003: 737). Fry and Keith (2004: 417) and Payne (2010: 219) recognize two subspecies, A. i. imberbis and A. i. butleri, with mukandakundae synonymized with nominate imberbis .