Rhipidura superflua Hartert, 1899

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 : 229

Rhipidura superflua Hartert

Rhipidura superflua Hartert, 1899d: 32 (Mt. Mada, Buru (3000 feet )).

Now Rhipidura superflua Hartert, 1899 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 369–370, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 229.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 650842 , adult male, collected on Mount Madang (5 Mount Mada), 3000 ft, ca. 03.15S, 126.10E, Buru Island, Moluccas, Indonesia, in September 1898, by J.M. Dumas. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, nor did he mention a type in his ( Hartert, 1900c: 235) later paper on the entire collection made by Dumas and Doherty on Buru. Hartert (1920: 497) listed as the type a male collected by Dumas on Mt. Madang in September 1898. Because there are two specimens with those data, his designation is ambiguous; however, the specimen now numbered AMNH 650842 was intended as the type, as Dumas’ label is marked ‘‘Type’’ and the specimen bears a Rothschild type label; accordingly, I hereby designate AMNH 650842 the lectotype of Rhipidura superflua in order to remove any ambiguity. Paralectotypes are AMNH 650843, male, and AMNH 650844 and 650845, females, all collected on Buru in September 1898 by Dumas.