Myiagra nupta 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 : 211

Myiagra nupta Hartert

Myiagra nupta Hartert, 1898d: 526 (Sudest Island).

Now Myiagra cyanoleuca (Vieillot, 1818) . See Rothschild and Hartert, 1918: 316, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 320.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 653241 , 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 16 April 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1738).

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, with Hartert only mentioning that he had a male and a female. Hartert (1920: 500) listed the male, Meek number 1738, as the type of nupta , thereby designating it the lectotype. The female paralectotype is AMNH 653244.