Alcedo melanoptera Horsfield, 1821

1821 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 174.

Now Halcyon cyanoventris (Vieillot, 1818) .

See Hartert, 1892: 228.

Paralectotype: MHNG 129.089, adult female, collected in Java between 1811 and 1817 by T. Horsfield.

Comment: The NHM claimed the “ holotype ” (Warren, 1966: 183), which becomes the lectotype with the discovery of this additional specimen (see details in the introduction). The UMZC claims a “ syntype ” (Benson, 1999: 59), which should be a paralectotype like the specimen in Geneva.