Psalidoprocne mangbettorum Chapin, 1923

LeCROY, M. A. R. Y., 2003, TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. PART 5. PASSERIFORMES: ALAUDIDAE, HIRUNDINIDAE, MOTACILLIDAE, CAMPEPHAGIDAE, PYCNONOTIDAE, IRENIDAE, LANIIDAE, VANGIDAE, BOMBYCILLIDAE, DULIDAE, CINCLIDAE, TROGLODYTIDAE, AND MIMIDAE, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278 (278), pp. 1-156 : 40

Psalidoprocne mangbettorum Chapin

Psalidoprocne mangbettorum Chapin, 1923: 7 (Medje, Ituri district, Belgian Congo).

Now Psalidoprocne pristoptera mangbettorum Chapin, 1923 . See Keith et al., 1992: 131.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 159746 , adult male, collected at Medje , 02°26′N, 27°17′E ( Chapin, 1954: 701), Ituri district, Congo (Kinshasa), on 20 March 1910, by James P. Chapin (no. 1198), on the Lang – Chapin American Museum Congo Expedition.

COMMENTS: The AMNH number was cited in the original description. Chapin (1923: 7) did not say how many specimens he had, but eight specimens (including the holotype) collected on the Lang–Chapin Expedition and cataloged as mangbettorum by Chapin are the only specimens of the taxon in AMNH collected prior to 1923. The paratypes are AMNH 159747–159753, from Medje, Niangara, Faradje, and Vankerchovenville. Chapin (1923: 4) described Medje as ‘‘a post which occupies a clearing near the northern edge of the Ituri Forest’’.

Sibley and Monroe (1990: 581) treated mangbettorum as a species in the superspecies pristoptera .