Muscicapa hyacinthina Temminck, 1820

Jansen, Justin J. F. J., 2017, Rene Mauge's ornithological collections from Kupang Bay, West-Timor, Indonesia, August-November 1801, with special regard to type-specimens, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 467-492 : 476

Muscicapa hyacinthina Temminck

Muscicapa hyacinthina Temminck, 1820, Planches Coloriees 3: 119 (Timor).

Cyornis hyacinthinus (Temminck, 1820). - Now.

Type materials.

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2013-1136 [MNHN A.C. 9861], adult male, near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Exp. Baudin / Lesueur / 9861 / ♂ / Siphia / Cyornis / Siphia hyacintina / Mna Muscicapa cyanea / Tem. / Typ. de Vieillot. Pedestal label: Siphia hyacinthina ♂ / Type (Tem.) / Exp. Baudin Timor

SYNTYPE: MNHN-ZO-2013-1138 [MNHN A.C. 9862], adult female, near Kupang Bay, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, West-Timor (10°11'0"S; 123°35'0"E), between 22 August and 13 November 1801, by René Maugé.

Pedestal underside: Timor / Exp. Baudin / Lesueur / 9862 / ♀ / Spihia / Cyornis / Cyornis hyacintina / Tem. / Typ. de Vieillot. Pedestal label: Siphia hyacinthina ♀ / Type (Tem.) / Exp. Baudin Timor.

Comments.

Temminck did not mention the number of specimens he examined in the MNHN. The only two MNHN specimens were a male and a female (MNHN Laboratory, ZMO-GalOis 3). The two syntypes are also the syntypes of Muscicapa cyanea Vieillot 1818, making it an objective junior synonym, but Vieillot’s name has been suppressed (Anon. 1956). The type locality is restricted to: West-Timor, near Kupang Bay (article 76a.2.A (ICZN 1999)). Temminck named this species Siphia hyacinthina or 'hyacinthine/like the hyacinth’ ( Jobling 2017).