Urobrachya axillaris neumanni Neunzig, 1928: 118

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 : 50

Urobrachya axillaris neumanni Neunzig, 1928: 118 .

Now: Euplectes axillaris phoeniceus ( Heuglin, 1862) . See Amadon et al. (1962: 70).

Holotype: ZMB 34531 , skin, male, collected by O. Neumann in Umbugwe (Mbulu Highlands), 12.11.1893.

Paratype: ZMB 2000.52299 (Fischer no. 111), skin, male, collected at Magu, 12.11.[1885] .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.52249 ( Sjöstedt no. 324), skin, male, collected by Y. Sjöstedt at “ Kilimandscharo ”, 09.09.1905 .

Paratype: ZMB 34526 , skin, male, collected by O. Neumann in Umbugwe (Mbulu Highlands), 11.11.1893 .

Paratype: ZMB 34528 , skin, female, collected by O. Neumann in Umbugwe (Mbulu Highlands), 16.11.1893 .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.52291 , skin, male, collected by H.A. Conrads on Ukerewe Island, [1907] .

Paratype: ZSM 11.2783 skin, male, collected by W. Kattwinkel at Olgos (near Ikoma), 02.1911 .

Paratype: ZSM 11.2784 skin, male, collected by W. Kattwinkel at Olgos (near Ikoma), 02.1911 .

Paratype: ZSM 11.2785 skin, male, collected by W. Kattwinkel at Olgos (near Ikoma), 02.1911 .

Paratype (missing): skin, male, collected by O. Neumann in Umbugwe (Mbulu Highlands) .

Paratype (missing): skin, female, collected by Y. Sjöstedt at “ Kilimandjaro ” .

Type locality: “Ostafrika: Landstriche östliche des Victoriasees bis zum Olgos und Kilimandscharo ” (East-Africa: region east of Lake Victoria to Olgos Hill and Kilimandscharo), from the original description, ascertained as Umbugwe [Umbugwe country (Mbulu Highlands), Manyara Region, Tanzania], the locality of the holotype.

Remarks: In the original description a male collected by Oscar Neumann in Umbugwe with the inventory number ZMB 34531 was chosen as “the type” and eleven specimens from the Berlin and Munich collections were mentioned as type material (10 paratypes). Therefore ZMB 34531 is determined as the holotype and all other specimens of the given combination of locality and collector that were in the collections in Berlin and Munich in 1928 are paratypes. The missing Neumann specimen was not inventoried at the ZMB. The Fischer paratype was mentioned in Reichenow (1887) as Penthetria phoenicea (Heuglin) .