Sitagra luteola kavirondensis van Someren

Sitagra luteola kavirondensis van Someren, 1921c: 123 (Soronko River) .

Now Ploceus luteolus (Lichtenstein, 1823) . See van Someren, 1922a: 140; Hartert, 1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 37; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 111–112; and Craig, 2010: 170.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 723343, adult male, collected on the Soronko River, 01.10N, 34.28E to 01.38N, 34.04E (Chapin, 1954a), Uganda, on 28 April 1916. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection .

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren designated as type of kavirondensis a male in the Rothschild Collection collected on the Soronko River, on 28 April 1916. The above specimen is the only one with those data and it bears a Rothschild type label. Van Someren had eight male and four female specimens from the Soronko River, S. Kerio, Kacheliba, Kisumu, Kibigori, and Entebbe. The following paratypes, all from the van Someren Collection, are in AMNH: Kerio, AMNH 723341, male, 2 June 1917; Soronko River, AMNH 723344, female, 28 April 1916; Kibigori, AMNH 723345, male, 24 August 1918. AMNH 723342 collected at Bukedi, Elgon Plains, a locality not included in the range given by van Someren, and AMNH 723340, collected at Entebbe on an unknown date by Grauer, are not considered paratypes.

Fry and Keith (2004: 111) and Craig (2010: 170) synonymized kavirondensis with P. luteolus which they considered monotypic.