Camaroptera olivacea Sundevall, 1850: 103

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 544

Camaroptera olivacea Sundevall, 1850: 103 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. in Caffraria inferiore.”

CURRENT STATUS: Synonym of Camaroptera brachyura brachyura (Vieillot, 1820) ; Cisticolidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 454) .

TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 103) mentioned both males and females in his original description. From his acquisition catalogue he apparently had five specimens at hand when he described the species. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 51) referred to NRM 569705 [4701] as a “type”, which we treat as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected at Durban on 26 October 1839. The four paralectotypes are: NRM 537663 [4700], a mounted female collected at Durban on 5 December 1839; NRM 90166584 [6721], a female collected 15 August 1840 at Durban; NRM 90166583 [4699], a female collected 8 July 1839 at Durban; and a male [6720] from Durban, collected 18 June 1840, exchanged to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer in the ZMB collection).

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal .

COMMENTS: The TL was incorrectly restricted to Umkomaas River by Gyldenstolpe (1934). Wahlberg returned to Durban from Umkomaas on 11 September and remained there until 29 October when he travelled north-east to the Tugela (Thukela) River. NRM 90166644 [6722], a male collected 13 January (or perhaps June?) 1844 in Saulspoort, was recorded by Sundevall in the manuscript catalogue after two Camaroptera olivacea as “a dist. sp.”. Following Article 72.4.1 of the Code: “or doubtfully attributes to the taxon”, this specimen, presently identified as Camaroptera brevicaudata sharpei von Zedlitz, 1911 , is not included in the original type series..