Myzomela chloroptera eva Meise, 1929

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Myzomela chloroptera eva Meise

Myzomela chloroptera eva Meise, 1929a: 443 (Djampea) .

Now Myzomela boiei eva Meise, 1929 . See White and Bruce, 1986: 402, Coates et al., 1997: 479– 480, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 333–334, Dickinson, 2003: 442, and Higgins et al., 2008: 641–642.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 266615 , adult male, collected on Tanahjampea (5 Djampea) Island, 07.05S, 120.42E ( White and Bruce, 1986: 491), Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, on 25 July 1927, by Baron Victor von Plessen (no. 476).

COMMENTS: Meise had two specimens from Tanahjampea, both males and collected on the same day. He gave von Plessen’s field number of the holotype in the original description and said that it was in AMNH. Besides von Plessen’s specimens, Meise also saw two adult males from Tanahjampea and one from Salayar (5 Saleyer) in the Rothschild Collection and one Salayar specimen from SNSD. Von Plessen’s collection was divided between AMNH and ZMB, and the Rothschild Collection specimens are now in AMNH. Paratypes in AMNH are: Tanahjampea, males, AMNH 692675 , 692676 (labeled ‘‘ eva Meise’’ by Meise, with a reference to the description) ; and Salayar, male, AMNH 692677 . Also considered a paratype is a second Salayar specimen, AMNH 692678 that would have been available to Meise in the Rothschild Collection, but because it is an immature male, it was not mentioned in his comparisons .

See Schodde and Mason (1999: 334) for a discussion of the various treatments of the Wallacean forms often considered subspecies of the species M. sanguinolenta . Higgins et al. (2008: 641) treated eva as a subspecies of the separate species M. chloroptera .