Sycobrotus Emini Hartlaub

Sycobrotus Emini Hartlaub, 1882b: 92 (Centralafrika) .

Now Ploceus baglafecht emini (Hartlaub, 1882) . See Hartlaub, 1882c: 322, pl. 1; Hartert, 1919: 138; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 36; Dickinson, 2003: 720; Fry and Keith, 2004: 106–108; Craig, 2010: 190.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 723048, adult male, collected at Agoro (= Agaru, as on label), 03.47N, 33.02E (Chapin, 1954a), Uganda, on 30 April 1881, by Emin Bey (no. 101). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, a male and a female were described, but no type was designated. Hartlaub (1882c: 322), under Hyphantornis, described a male, said that he had a second male, and described females, but again did not indicate a type, saying only that he had five specimens from Agaru and thereby restricting the type locality. Hartert (1919: 138), by listing the specimen bearing Emin’s no. 101 as the type, designated it the lectotype. AMNH 723049, female, Agaru, 1 May 1881 is the only other Rothschild specimen; it is a paralectotype of S. emini . The name is not listed by Sánchez- Osés (2010).

Hartlaub (1882c: pl. 1, fig. 1) illustrated both male and female, captioned ‘‘ Sycobrotus Emini. ’’