Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr, 1932

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Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr

Amoromyza viridis brunneirostris Mayr, 1932: 3 (Viti Levu Island, Fiji Islands).

Now Gymnomyza viridis brunneirostris ( Mayr, 1932) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 423, Watling, 2001: 174, and Higgins et al., 2008: 670.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 253450 , adult male, collected on Viti Levu Island , Fiji, on 5 May 1925, by Rollo H. Beck on the Whitney South Sea Expedition (no. 17855).

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave measurements of adult and juvenile males and adult and juvenile females, saying that his specimens had been collected in June and December 1924 and in March , May , and October 1925. The following specimens are paratypes: Viti Levu, June 1924, AMNH 206660 , male, AMNH 206661 , female ; December 1924, AMNH 221785 , male ; March 1925, AMNH 253447 , 253448 , males ; May 1925, AMNH 253449 , male, AMNH 253451 , 253452 , females, AMNH 253453 , male, AMNH 253454–253457 , females, AMNH 253458 , 253459 , males, AMNH 253460 , 253461 , females, AMNH 253462 , 253463 , males ; October 1925, AMNH 254012 , 254013 , males, AMNH 254014 , female ; March 1925, AMNH 254015 , 254016 , males ; May 1925, AMNH 254017–254019 , females (14 males and 13 females). Of these, the following have been exchanged: AMNH 253448 to BBM in January 1932 ; AMNH 253457 to ZMUC in May 1959 ; AMNH 253459 to ZMB in July 1936 ; AMNH 253461 to CM in January 1932 ; AMNH 254016 to ZIUS in December 1931 ; AMNH 254018 to Cleveland Museum in January 1932 ; AMNH 254019 to USNM in January 1932. AMNH 253462 was mounted for display in the Fiji diorama at AMNH ; I did not find AMNH 253449 and it may have been exchanged without the catalog having been so marked. A. v. brunneirostris was published in February 1932, and the above specimens presumably were not exchanged until after the manuscript for the description was completed by Mayr.