Telephonus reichenowi Neumann, 1900: 120

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 26

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Telephonus reichenowi Neumann, 1900: 120 .

Now: Bocagia minuta reichenowi ( Neumann, 1900) ; but see Reichenow (1903b); Mayr & Greenway (1960: 320).

Syntype: ZMB 27496 View Materials (B 18656, Fischer no. 618), skin, former mount, male, collected at Pangani, 22.12.[1882] .

Syntype: ZMB 27497 View Materials (B 18656, Fischer no. 621), skin, former mount, female, collected at Pangani, 25.12.[1882] .

Syntype: ZMB 31874 View Materials (Stuhlmann no. 383), skin, female, collected by F. Stuhlmann at “Kissaki”, 12.1894 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.61902 View Materials ( Stuhlmann no. 201), skin, collected by F. Stuhlmann at “ Dar-es-Salaam ”, 28.04.1894 .

Syntype (missing): collected by S. T. Pruen at Kikombo (Ugogo), 04.06.1888 (cited from Tristram 1889) .

Syntype (missing): collected by S.T. Pruen at Kikombo (Ugogo), 04.06.1888 (cited from Tristram 1889, Telephonus anchietae ).

Syntype (missing): collected by J. Kirk at “Ussambara” (cited from Reichenow 1894, 1903b; Shelley 1881).

Syntype (missing): collected by J. Kirk at Lamu (cited from Reichenow 1894, 1903b; Shelley 1881).

Type locality: “Küstengebiete von Deutsch-Ost-Afrika und Britisch Ost-Afrika (Lamu) und geht bis Ugogo ins Innere des Landes” [coast provinces of Tanzania and Kenya (Lamu, Lamu County, Kenya) to Ugogo (Ugogo country, Dodoma Region, Tanzania)], from the original description.

Remarks: In the original description four specimens from Pangani, Kissaki and Dar es Salam were mentioned, and four of Bocagia minutus from these localities were located at the ZMB. Fischer (1884) listed two specimens for Telephonus minutus from Pangani (nos. 618 and 621). Therefore, the four Fischer and Stuhlmann specimens are regarded as the type specimens for T. reichenowi . Neumann (1900) included further specimens of T. minutus and T. anchietae from the literature ( Shelley 1881; Tristram 1889; Reichenow 1894) that match the distribution area of the newly described species. All these specimens are regarded as syntypes. The missing specimens are not housed at the BMNH or the AMNH. Hall & Moreau (1970) and Sibley & Ahlquist (1990) suggested that reichenowi may be worthy of separate species status, but due to lack of documentation, this was not supported by Dowsett & Dowsett-Lemaire (1993), Dickinson & Christidis (2014), or del Hoyo & Collar (2016).