Myzomela obscura harterti Mathews, 1911

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Myzomela obscura harterti Mathews

Myzomela obscura harterti Mathews, 1911b: 100 (Cairns, N. Queensland).

Now Myzomela obscura harterti Mathews, 1911 . See Schodde and Mason, 1999: 337–338, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 638–639.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 692518 , adult male, collected at Cairns , 16.51S, 145.43E (Times Atlas), northern Queensland, Australia, in July 1908, by P. Schraeder. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3036) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description; the only locality mentioned was Cairns. In addition to Mathews’ collection label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, the holotype also bears a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it served as the model for Mathews (1924: pl. 517, opp. p. 330, text p. 331), where it is confirmed as the type of M. o. harterti. Mathews had three additional specimens collected by Schraeder at Cairns, paratypes AMNH 692516 (Mathews no. 3038), sexed as a female, but label changed to male, August 1908 ; AMNH 592517 (3037), male, August 1908 ; AMNH 592519 (3039), female, July 1908. AMNH 692520 (16883) collected by T.H. Bowyer Bower at Cairns on 14 January 1885, was not cataloged by Mathews until 15 May 1913, long after the publication of harterti, and it is not a paratype .