Symplectes stictifrons G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1885

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 51

Symplectes stictifrons G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1885 (in Reichenow 1885): 373.

Now: Ploceus bicolor stictifrons (G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1885) . See Amadon et al. (1962: 55).

Syntype: ZMB 30723 (B 19013, Fischer no. 590), skin, former mount, collected at Lindi , 04.[18]82.

Syntype: ZMB 2000.32541 (B 19013), skin, juvenile, collected at Lindi , 04.[18]82.

Syntype: ZMB 2000.32542 (B 19013), skin, juvenile, collected at Lindi , 04.[18]82.

Type locality: Lindi [Lindi, Lindi Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as locality of the syntypes.

Remarks: Reichenow (1885) included a description for Symplectes stictifrons but mentioned that it was described by Fischer and Reichenow. In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, and only the locality Lindi was given. As there are three 1882 Lindi specimens of this species at the ZMB that were probably collected for Fischer (see Fischer 1885a), they are all regarded as syntypes. In Fischer (1885a) they were listed under the name Sycobrotus bicolor . The entry catalogue however refers to only two specimens, which may be an error, or that one of the juveniles was originally not included in the collection. USNM 105550 is not a type specimen as it was not collected at Lindi.