Sylviella leucopsis Reichenow, 1879b: 114

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 : 32

Sylviella leucopsis Reichenow, 1879b: 114 .

Now: Sylvietta leucopsis (Reichenow, 1879) ; but see Mayr et al. (1986: 210); White (1961: 730).

Holotype (missing): ZMB 24245 (B 15685, Fischer no. 365), male, collected at Kibaradja, [23.10.1878].

Type locality: Kibaradja [Kibaradja, Tana River County, Kenya], from the original description as well as locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description, no type was chosen and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one individual and the locality “Kibaradja” were given. Fischer & Reichenow (1879: 355) listed two specimens for this species, one collected in Kibaradja (collector’s number 365) and one collected in Malindi (collector’s number 174a). As Reichenow (1879b) gave Kibaradja as type locality, ZMB 24245 (no. 365) is the holotype for this species, whereas no. 174a (ZMB 24246) has no type status [although it later became the type for Sylviella fischeri Reichenow, 1900 (see below)]. Neither specimen is now at the ZMB; they were mounted and probably destroyed during World War II.