Pytelia melba useguhae Neunzig, 1928: 109

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 : 53

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5334.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8270160
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scientific name	Pytelia melba useguhae Neunzig, 1928: 109
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Pytelia melba useguhae Neunzig, 1928: 109 .

Now: Pytilia melba grotei Reichenow, 1919 . See Blake et al. (1968: 315).

Holotype: ZMB 2000.20327 View Materials (Fischer no. 567), skin, male, collected in “Usegua”, 02.1882.

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20329 View Materials (Fischer no. 566), skin, female, collected in “Usegua”, 02.1882 .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20330 View Materials , skin, male, collected by K. Hofmann at Magogoni, 15.08.1911 .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20334 View Materials , skin, female, collected by K. Hofmann at Magogoni, 12.04.1911 –1912.

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20335 View Materials , skin, male, collected by K. Hofmann at Magogoni, 12.04.1911 –1912.

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20337 View Materials , skin, female, collected by K. Hofmann at “Morogoro-Kiroka” .

Paratype: ZMB 2000.20336 View Materials , skin, female, collected by K. Hofmann at “Bismarckburg” .

Paratype (missing, ZMH): skin, male, juvenile, collected by F. Stuhlmann at Mbusini, Usegua .

Type locality: Useguha and “Landstriche am Rufu” ( Useguha and “area along the Ruvu River ”), from the original description ascertained as Useguha [Useguha country, Wazigwa country, Tanga Region, Tanzania], the locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description a male collected by Fischer in Usegua was chosen as the “Typus” (holotype), and another seven specimens were mentioned as additional material (paratypes) in the Berlin and Hamburg collections. Therefore ZMB 2000.20327 is designated as the holotype, while all other specimens in the ZMH and ZMB collections in 1928 are listed as paratypes. The whereabouts of the missing specimen are unknown. No specimens could be traced in Hamburg, and the missing ZMH specimen were probably destroyed in World War II.