Heteromyias cinereifrons athertoni Mathews

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Heteromyias cinereifrons athertoni Mathews

Heteromyias cinereifrons athertoni Mathews, 1915a: 130 (Atherton, North Queensland).

Now Poecilodryas albispecularis cinereifrons Ramsay, 1876 . See Mayr, 1986d: 580, and Schodde and Mason, 1999: 351–352.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 608423 , adult male, collected in the Atherton scrub, ca. 17.16S, 145.29E, Queensland, Australia, in September 1908. From the Mathews Collection (no. 1742) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews only said that the type was from Atherton; he did not mention other specimens. AMNH 608423 bears a Mathews Collection label with the information given above and ‘‘ Type’ ’ written by Mathews. Additionally, it has a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘ Ex. coll. G.M. Mathews’ ’ and a Rothschild type label. It is clear that Mathews intended this specimen to be his type, and because it bears a Rothschild type label, it was cataloged as the type at AMNH. To confirm Mathews’ intent and to avoid confusion in interpreting the older literature, I hereby designate AMNH 608423 the lectotype of Heteromyias cinereifrons athertoni Mathews. He had three additional specimens from Atherton scrub: paralectotypes AMNH 608424 (Mathews no. 1741), male, and AMNH 608425 (1743) and 608426 (1744), females .

Schodde and Mason (1999: 351–352) have discussed the reasons for including Heteromyias within the genus Poecilodryas and considering cinereifrons a subspecies of albispecularis . Mayr (1986d: 580) and others have considered cinereifrons a separate species in the genus Heteromyias .