Hypolais Arigonis A.E. Brehm

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 35

Hypolais Arigonis A.E. Brehm

Hypolais Arigonis A.E. Brehm, 1857: 467 (Játiva de San Felipe).

Now Hippolais opaca Cabanis, 1850 . See Hartert, 1918a: 31, Watson et al., 1986a: 79, Svensson, 2001: 198–199, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 636.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455227 , adult male, collected at Játiva , 39.00N, 00.32W (Times Atlas), Spain, on 3 July 1856, by A.E. Brehm. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, A.E. Brehm did not designate a type; Hartert (1918a: 31) designated the specimen bearing the unique date of 3 July 1856 as the lectotype. There are six paralectotypes, AMNH 455228–455233 , collected by A.E. Brehm in Játiva in 1855 and 1856 and labeled arigonis by C.L. Brehm .

Urban et al. (1997: 130) treated opaca as a subspecies of H. pallida , but studies by Helbig and Seibold (1999) on the phylogenetic relationships among reed warblers suggested ( Helbig and Seibold, 1999: 258) a revised classification. For this taxon they retained the genus Hippolais , subgenus Iduna , superspecies pallida , allospecies opaca . Dickinson (2003: 586) listed it as Iduna pallida opaca .