Sporopipes frontalis pallidior Hartert

Sporopipes frontalis pallidior Hartert, 1921: 136 (Zinder) .

Now Sporopipes frontalis frontalis (Daudin, 1800) . See Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 30; Dickinson, 2003: 719; Fry and Keith, 2004: 64–65; and Craig, 2010: 137.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 722589, adult male, collected at Zinder, 13.46N, 08.58E (Times Atlas), southern Niger (= French West Africa, as on label), on 9 February 1920, by Angus Buchanan (no. 345). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert gave Buchanan’s field number of the holotype and noted that he had eight specimens. The seven paratypes, all collected by Buchanan in 1920, are: Zinder, AMNH 722590, immature male, 10 February; AMNH 722591, immature female, AMNH 722592, adult female, 28 January. Takoukout, Damergou, AMNH 722597, 722598, males, 13 March; AMNH 722599, 722600, females, 22 March.

The subspecies pallidior is usually synonymized with nominate frontalis, but it was recognized by Dickinson (2003: 719). It was not listed by Hartert in any of his lists of types in the Rothschild Collection.