Oedistoma pygmaeum flavipectus Salomonsen

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Oedistoma pygmaeum flavipectus Salomonsen

Oedistoma pygmaeum flavipectus Salomonsen, 1966a: 2 (Wuroi, Oriomo River, British Papua (western division), southern New Guinea).

Now Oedistoma pygmaeum pygmaeum Salvadori, 1876 . See Mayr and Rand, 1937: 213, Diamond, 1969: 45, Diamond, 1972: 357, Dickinson, 2003: 451, and Gregory, 2008: 337–338.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 422241 , adult male, collected at Wuroi , 08.50S, 143.07E ( Deignan, 1964a: 234), Oriomo River, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, on 10 February 1934, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand, on the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 2824).

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original

description and gave the range as southern New Guinea from Etna Bay to Milne Bay. Paratypes: AMNH 295665 , Galley Reach ; AMNH 421189–421197 , Mafulu ; AMNH 422242 , 422243 , Wuroi , Oriomo River ; AMNH 427744–427753 , Fly River ; AMNH 427754–427757 , Wassi Kussa River ; AMNH 691192–691196 , Upper Setekwa River and southern Snow Mountains ; AMNH 691198 , Mount Gayata ; AMNH 216409 (exchange from Rothschild), AMNH 691199–691203 , Aroa River ; AMNH 691204 , Mount Cameron , Owen Stanley Mountains .

For a summary of the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition, see Archbold and Rand (1935).