Trachyphonus suahelicus Reichenow, 1887: 60 .

Now: Trachyphonus vaillantii suahelicus (Reichenow, 1887) . See Peters (1948: 61).

Holotype: ZMB 50.19 (Fischer no. 1), skin, female, collected in “Usegua”, 25.08.1885.

Paratype: ZMB 30418 (Böhm no. 609), skin, male, collected by R. Böhm, at Kakoma, 22.08.[1881].

Paratype: ZMB 2000.32621 (Fischer no. 508), skin, male, possibly collected for him by a local collector in the Nguru Mountains, [Jul] .

Type locality: “ Usegua” [ Useguha country, Tanga Region, Tanzania], the locality of the holotype .

Remarks: In the original description, the holotype was mentioned with these collecting dates. It was also mentioned that a specimen collected by one of Fischer’s local collectors was from the “Nguru-Berge” and identified as Trachyphonus caffer (see Fischer 1884: 372) as well as a male collected by Böhm at Kakoma, also belong to the newly described species T. suahelicus .