Zosterops japonica insularis Ogawa

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Zosterops japonica insularis Ogawa

Zosterops japonica insularis Ogawa, 1905: 186 (Tanegashima) .

Now Zosterops japonicus insularis Ogawa, 1905 . See Mees, 1957: 108–112, Dickinson, 2003: 625, Morioka et al., 2005: 52, and van Balen, 2008: 445–446.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 699774 , adult male, collected at Masuda , Tanegashima Island , 30.35N, 130.59E ( Morioka et al., 2005: 153), Japan, on 12 November 1904, by collectors for Alan Owston (nos. 1330, 43). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description. Hartert (1920: 436) listed the specimen bearing the unique number 1330 as the type, thus designating it the lectotype, and Mees (1957: 110) confirmed Hartert’s designation. Ogawa (1905: 188–189) listed all of the specimens that he examined in the Owston collection, a total of 55; 40 of these came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and 39 are paralectotypes: Yakushima, AMNH 699747–699766; Tanegashima, AMNH 699767–699773 and 699775–699786.