Chlorestes gertrudis Gundlach

Frahnert, Sylke, Roman, Rafaela Aguilera, Eckhoff, Pascal & Wiley, James W., 2015, Juan Cristobal Gundlach's collections of Puerto Rican birds with special regard to types, Zoosystematics and Evolution 91 (2), pp. 177-189 : 185-186

Taxon classification Animalia Apodiformes Trochilidae

Chlorestes gertrudis Gundlach

Chlorestes gertrudis Gundlach 1874: 312, 315.

Now.

Chlorostilbon maugaeus ( Gundlach 1878b, Cory 1889: 154, Salvin 1892: 58, Peters 1955: 39).

Type series.

Not specified by Gundlach (1874). In 1878, Gundlach (1878b) wrote that he collected one male of this new species which was sent to Berlin later and so it is the holotype.

Holotype.

ZMB 21628, skin, adult male, collected by J. C. Gundlach in Portorico [Puerto Rico] in November [1873].

Type locality.

Porto Rico [today Puerto Rico, western part ( Wiley et al. 2014)].

Remarks.

Gundlach was not aware of the description of Sporadinus maugaeus Viell. 1817 when he described Chlorestes gertrudis . In his second publication on the birds of Puerto Rico (1878b), Gundlach suspected synonymy with this species but he was uncertain.

Gundlach (1874) named Chlorestes gertrudis , a synonym of Chlorostilbon maugaeus , as a new species, in honor of Gertrud Krug, wife of his friend Leopold Krug ( Gundlach 1878a: 182; in litt. JCG to Felipe Poey; 1 August 1873; from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; AhULH). Blanco (1969), however, claimed it was named in recognition of doña Gertrudis Gonzalez de la Parte, mother of Tomás Blanco. Valdes Ragués (1914) listed five unnamed specimens of “zumbador” in his catalogue, probably a combination of Antillean mango (3 specimens), green mango (1), and Puerto Rican emerald (1).

Five additional specimens of this species were collected by Gundlach (ZMB 22672-22674; IES 2578; AMNH 38784), but all have been collected during his second expedition to Puerto Rico and, therefore, we do not regard them as types.