Poecilodryas cyanopsis Sharpe

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 : 261

Hartert Poecilodryas cyanopsis Sharpe

Poecilodryas cyana salvadorii Rothschild and Hartert, 1900: 26 (Mt. Cameron, 7000 feet).

Now Peneothello cyanus subcyanea (De Vis, 1897) . See Mayr, 1986d: 579, Coates 1990: 199–200, and Dickinson, 2003: 519.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 608206 , adult male, collected on Mount Cameron , 7000 ft, 08.50S, 147.15E ( USBGN, 1943), Owen Stanley Mountains, Papua New Guinea, on 15 August 1896, by A.S. Anthony. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, the type was only said to be from Mt. Cameron at 7000 ft. Both a male and a female were collected there, but Hartert (1920: 494) listed the male as the type of P. c. salvadorii , thereby designating it the lectotype, and noted that salvadorii was a synonym of Poecilodryas subcyanea De Vis, 1897 . Paralectotypes are: AMNH 608178, unsexed, Ambernoh River; AMNH 608207, female, Mt. Cameron, 15 August 1896; AMNH 608208, unsexed, Kotoi District, August 1898; AMNH 608209 and 608210, unsexed, Mt. Scratchley; and AMNH 608211, unsexed, Eafa, 1000–3000 ft.

Sharpe (1901: 235) provided Poecilodryas cyanopsis as a replacement name for Poecilodryas cyana salvadorii Rothschild and Hartert, 1900 (November), preoccupied by Poecilodryas salvadorii Madarász, 1900 (January); they share the same type. Poecilodryas subcyanea De Vis, 1897 was, however, senior to P. c. salvadorii Rothschild and Hartert, 1900 .