Penthetria laticauda suahelica van Someren

Penthetria laticauda suahelica van Someren, 1921c: 121 (Nairobi River) .

Now Euplectes ardens suahelicus (van Someren, 1921) . See van Someren, 1922a: 151; Hartert, 1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 73; Craig, 1993b: 141–143; Zimmerman et al., 1999: 547–548; Dickinson, 2003: 726; Fry and Keith, 2004: 239–242; and Craig, 2010: 144–145.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 727204, adult male, collected on the Nairobi River, Kenya, on 4 April 1917. From the V.G.L van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type of suahelicus a specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data. Only one specimen collected on that date came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, and it bears a Rothschild type label. In the description, van Someren gave the range as East Africa, and later (van Someren, 1922a: 151) included the following localities in suahelicus: Kerio, Kirimiri, Elgon, Kisumu, Maraquet, Elgeyu, Burnt Forest, Kikuyu, Narobi, and Ukamba. The following specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and are considered paratypes of suahelicus. Burnt Forest, AMNH 727199–727201, two males, one female, 15–22 September 1918 ; Nairobi Plains, AMNH 727202, 727203, males, 2 June 1918; Nairobi or Nairobi River, AMNH 727205–727208, three males, one female, January–September 1917 ; Kirimiri, AMNH 727214, male, 17 April 1917, all from the van Someren Collection. Also Kikuyu, AMNH 727217, male, February 1919, collected by H.J. Allen Turner ; and AMNH 727218, male, 3 December 1894, collected by O. Neumann. Because van Someren worked in the Rothschild Collection, these last two specimens would have been available to him and so are treated as paratypes.