Rhipidura setosa nigromentalis Hartert

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 : 221

Rhipidura setosa nigromentalis Hartert

Rhipidura setosa nigromentalis Hartert, 1898d: 526 (Sudest) .

Now Rhipidura rufiventris nigromentalis Hartert, 1898 . See del Hoyo et al., 2006: 238.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 651193 , adult male, collected on Tacuta (5 Sudest) Island, 11.30S, 153.30E ( Papua New Guinea, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 13 April 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1721). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, only saying that the type was from Sudest. Later, he ( Hartert, 1920: 497) listed Meek’s specimen number 1721 as the type of R. s. nigromentalis, thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are Meek specimens from Tacuta (5 Tagula), collected in March and April 1898, and from Misima (5 St. Aignan) Island, collected in August and September 1897: AMNH 651194, 651195, 651201, and 651205–651210.

Both ‘‘Tagula’’ and ‘‘Sudest’’ have been used as the name of this island; the spelling on more modern maps is Tacuta.