Melithreptus gularis loftyi Mathews

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Melithreptus gularis loftyi Mathews

Melithreptus gularis loftyi Mathews, 1912a: 392 (South Australia).

Now Melithreptus gularis gularis (Gould, 1837) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 397, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276–277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691499 , adult sex?, Mount Lofty Range , 35.00S, 138.50E ( USBGN, 1957), east of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, on 24 July 1911, by S.A. White (no. 16). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9302) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and the range of the form as ‘‘ South Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to the original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that the specimen was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 512, middle fig., opp. p. 256, text p. 256), where it was confirmed as the type of ‘‘ lofti ’’(sic). Mathews had a single paratype of loftyi: AMNH 691500, female, collected in the Mount Lofty Range on 24 July 1911 by White (no. 17). White (1914: 8– 9) published a note on this form.