Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild

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Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert (in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 238 (Fergusson Island).

Now Philemon buceroides subtuberosus Hartert, 1896 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 409, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 697144 , adult male, collected on Fergusson Island , D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 9 October 1894, by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Hartert only saying that he had four adult specimens of both sexes. Rothschild and Hartert (1903b: 450) again did not mention a type, but later, Hartert (1919a: 177) listed the single male collected on 9 October 1894 as the type of subtuberosus, thereby designating it the lectotype. There are three paralectotypes, all collected on Fergusson Island in 1894: AMNH 697145, male, 2 October; AMNH 697148, female, 18 October; AMNH 697149, female, 18 October. Other specimens in AMNH were collected after the publication of the name.

Meek (1913: 45, 58) had his base camp at Nade (5 Nadi), ca. 09.40S, 150.42E, and remained there for four months in 1894.

Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 319 (Sudest Island).

Now Philemon buceroides tagulanus Rothschild and Hartert, 1918 . See Salomonsen, 1967: 409, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680– 681.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 697151, adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Tagula or Sudest) Island, 11.30S, 153.30E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 6 May 1916, by Albert F. Eichhorn for Albert S. Meek (no. 7411). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert gave Meek’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description and had a type series of three males. The two paratypes, also from Tacuta, are: AMNH 697150, 7 May 1916; AMNH 697152, 6 May 1916.