Pachycephalopsis poliosoma balim Rand, 1940

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Pachycephalopsis poliosoma balim Rand

Pachycephalopsis poliosoma balim Rand, 1940b: 4 (Balim River, 1600 meters, Netherland New Guinea).

Now Pachycephalopsis poliosoma balim Rand, 1940 . See Dickinson, 2003: 520.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305665 , adult male, collected on the Balim River , 1600 meters, ca. 04.20S, 139.00E ( Archbold et al., 1942: map 1), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 13 December 1938, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 8658).

COMMENTS: Rand gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description ; he had three males and one female ( Rand, 1942b: 487). The paratypes are: AMNH 341453 , immature male, and AMNH 341454 , female, from the Balim River, 13 December 1938 ; and AMNH 341455 , male, from the Bele (5 Ibele ) River, 29 November 1938. AMNH 341455 was sent to MZB on 7 May 1957 .

See Rand (1942b) and Archbold et al. (1942) for further information on the 1938– 1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea, which was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie naar Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea.