Picus syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg

Picus syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833: 37 .

Now. Dendrocopos syriacus syriacus (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) . See Hartert (1911: 910).

Type series. Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 37) did not specify the number of specimens they attributed to their Picus syriacus . They supplied only two of these woodpeckers to ZMB (Lichtenstein 1825, Nr. 5–6, sub Picus fuliginosus; see also Lichtenstein 1854: 75). These two specimens thus constitute the type series of Picus syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg. Both are still deposited in ZMB.

Syntypes: ZMB 10417, 10418, skins, unsexed, collected on an unknown date [= 5–24 July 1824] in “ Libanon ” [= Bcharré, Lebanon].

Type locality. Picus syriacus was described from “Syriae monte Libano ” (Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1833), i.e. Jabal Lubnān of Syria. The type locality was given as “ Syria ” by Vaurie (1959a: 16). Lichtenstein (1825) listed “ Syria, Bscharri” as the locality. Bcharré lays in Jabal Lubnān and can thus be understood as the restricted type locality of Picus syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg (see also Stresemann 1954: 175; 1962: 388; Vaurie 1965: 708, who erroneously placed Bcharré in Syria). Both syntypes were collected at Bcharré during 5–24 July 1824.

Remarks. The species is now extinct at its type locality (Tohme & Neuschwander 1974, Ramadan-Jaradi & Ramadan-Jaradi 1999).