Pachyphantes superciliosus omoensis Neumann

Pachyphantes superciliosus omoensis Neumann, 1905: 342 (Omo zwischen Malo and Koscha).

Now Ploceus superciliosus (Shelley, 1873) . See Hartert, 1919: 139; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 52; Dickinson, 2003: 722; Fry and Keith, 2004: 196–198; Ash and Atkins, 2009: 341; and Craig, 2010: 158.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 724347, female, collected on the Omo River between Malo and Koscha, southern Ethiopia, on 18 February 1901, by Oscar Neumann (no. 851). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Neumann’s description was based on the single female specimen collected between Malo, 06.33N, 36.37E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 416) and Koscha, 06.45N, 36.35E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 415). The area is shown on the map in Neumann (1902b); Koscha is there spelled Kucha.

The generic affiliations of superciliosus are not settled. Moreau and Greenway (1962: 52), Dickinson (2003: 722), and Ash and Atkins (2009: 341) place it in Ploceus; Fry and Keith (2004: 196) and Craig (2010: 158) retain it in Pachyphantes, the last commenting that recent DNA studies indicate that it may be closest to the genus Amblyospiza .