Penthetria Hartlaubi Cabanis

Penthetria Hartlaubi Cabanis, 1883: 218 (Ladó) .

Now Euplectes gierowii ansorgei (Hartert, 1899) . See Hartlaub, 1882a: 202; Hartert, 1919: 145; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 66; Craig, 1993a: 88–89; Dickinson, 2003: 725; Fry and Keith, 2004: 227–228; and Craig, 2010: 144.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 726626, male in nonbreeding plumage, Wakkala, 04.42N, 32.28E (Chapin, 1954a), east-southeast of Lado, Sudan, on 7 April 1881, by Emin Pasha (no. 24). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Cabanis based his description on the single Emin specimen identified by Hartlaub (1882a: 202) as Penthetria concolor . However, Cabanis’ name is a junior primary homonym of Penthetria hartlaubi Barboza du Bocage, 1878, and thus permanently invalid (ICZN, 1999: 59, Art. 57.2).