Anthus caffer caffer Sundevall, 1850

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 536-537

Anthus caffer Sundevall, 1850: 100 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “[Södra Afrika] Hab. cum priore, in sylvis, ubi nidum in gramine, ut A. arboreus , construit.”; [ A. arboreus = Anthus trivialis (Linnaeus, 1758) ].

CURRENT STATUS: Anthus caffer caffer Sundevall, 1850 ; Motacillidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 308) .

TYPE MATERIAL:Sundevall in his original description(1850:100)gave no indication that his species was based on more than one specimen. According to Sundevall’s acquisition catalogue the original type series consisted of five specimens. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 29–30) referred to NRM 568734 [6550] as a “type”, which we treat as a lectotype designation of this adult female collected 25 October 1843 at a nest with an egg at Saulspoort (Mohoapoani). The four paralectotypes are: NRM 90169390 [6551], a juvenile male collected 24 November 1841 in Magaliesberg ; NRM 553434 [6552], a male collected 24 November 1841 in Magaliesberg ; RMNH. AVES.88943.x [6549]; a female collected 26 November 1841 in Magaliesberg , sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; and one female [6553] collected 26 November 1841 in Magaliesberg , sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer present in the ZMB collection) .

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Saulspoort (Mohoapoani), North West Province .

COMMENTS: Date and place agree with the journal entries.