Myzomela albigula Hartert, 1898

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Myzomela albigula Hartert

Myzomela albigula Hartert, 1898b: 20 (Rossel Island).

Now Myzomela albigula albigula Hartert, 1898 . See Coates, 1990: 240, and Higgins et al., 2008: 637.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 692661 , adult male, collected on Yela (5 Rossel) Island, 11.20S, 154.10E ( PNG, 1984), Louisiade Archipelago , Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 27 January 1898, by Albert S. Meek (no. 1306). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description nor did he mention one in the following publication ( Hartert, 1899a: 79) in which he reported on the entire first collection by Meek from Rossel. Only later did Rothschild and Hartert (1903a: 224) cite Meek’s specimen no. 1306 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype, and list the other specimens collected by Meek on Rossel as well, together with field numbers. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 692662–692668, three males and four females, collected in January–February 1898. Of these, AMNH 692668 was exchanged to FMNH in the 1960s.