Toxorhamphus iliolophus cinerascens Stresemann and Paludan

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Toxorhamphus iliolophus cinerascens Stresemann and Paludan

Toxorhamphus iliolophus cinerascens Stresemann and Paludan (in Rothschild et al.), 1932a: 144 (Waigeu).

Now Oedistoma iliolophus cinerascens ( Stresemann and Paludan, 1932) . See Salomonsen 1967: 342, Beehler and Finch, 1985: 554, Beehler et al., 1986: 196, Coates, 1990: 313–315, Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 336.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 301058 , adult male, collected on Waigeo (5 Waigeu) Island, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 11 May 1931, by Georg Stein (no. 1318) on the Expedition G. Stein.

COMMENTS: Stresemann and Paludan cit- ed Stein’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description but did not list the number of specimens examined. The Stein expedition was jointly sponsored by L.C. Sanford for AMNH, Rothschild, and ZMB. Most of the collection is now in AMNH, but part is in ZMB. Paratypes in AMNH, all collected in May and June 1931 on Waigeo by Stein, are: AMNH 301059–301061, 301061bis, 301062–301068, five males, one male juvenile?, three females, two sex?, corresponding to Stein numbers 1304–1309, 1313, 1315– 1317, 1319.

The Steins’ base on Waigeo was at Warmek, Mayalibit (5 Majalibit) Bay, 00.13S, 130.45E (USBGN, 1982a), from 9– 19 May 1931 ( Rothschild et al., 1932a: 129, Stein, 1933: 260–264), around which place they collected the representative lowland fauna. Stein’s observations were never published in full, as his home and notes were destroyed in World War II ( Stresemann, 1967: 186).

Beehler and Finch (1985:554) noted that the species name, iliolophus , should be treated as a noun, thus is gender invariable. According to Jobling (1991: 114) the specific name is a combination of a Latin noun, ilium (‘‘flank’’), and a Greek noun, lophos (‘‘crest’’); but, contra Jobling, who listed the name as Oedistoma iliolophum , it was introduced as Melilestes iliolophus Salvadori, 1876 . The Code (ICZN, 1999: 38, Art. 31.2.1) states that a species-group name that is a compound noun in apposition need not agree in gender with the generic name with which it is combined and the original spelling is to be retained. In this case, iliolophus is correct. This was followed by Beehler et al. (1986: 196), Coates (1990: 313–315), and Gregory (2008: 336), who also discussed placement of Oedistoma in the Melanocharitidae . Salomonsen (1967: 342) and Dickinson (2003: 451), both of whom included iliolophus in the neuter genus Oedistoma , used a neuter ending.