Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833 : 55
Type specimens and type localities of birds collected during the Hemprich and Ehrenberg expedition to Lebanon in 1824
Mlíkovský, Jiří
Frahnert, Sylke
Zootaxa
2011
2990
1
29
Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Hemprich & Ehrenberg
[151,742,1330,1356]
Aves
Sylviidae
Curruca
GBIF
Animalia
Passeriformes
13
14
Chordata
subSpecies
orphea
helena
Typeseries.“Specimina 3 adsunt, syriacum 1 capite nigro, arabica 2, capite cinereo” ( Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1833: 55). The form was thus based on three syntypes, a black-capped bird from “ Syria” and two gray-capped birds from “Arabia”, all of which were registered in the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB(see below). Lichtenstein(1825)listed sub Nr. 74 an unsexed S. orpheafrom “Bischerre Jul.”, sub Nr. 77 a black-capped (“pileo nigro”) S. orpheafrom an unknown locality, and sub Nr. 85 an unsexed S. hortensisfrom an unknown locality, which he later struck out and re-identified as a juvenile (“pullus”) S. cinerea. A comparison of the data in Lichtenstein(1825)with those in the Inventory Catalogue of the ZMBthus indicates that the syntypefrom “ Syria” is the specimen ZMB4144. Syntype. ZMB4145, mount, 3, collected in “Arabia” (Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB) [= Sinai Peninsula, Egypt]. Syntype. ZMB4146, skin, unsexed, collected in “Arabia” (label) [= Sinai Peninsula, Egypt]. Syntype(lost): ZMB4144, 3, collected in July ( Lichtenstein1825) [= 5–24 July 1824] in “ Syrien” (Inventory Catalogue of the ZMB) or at “Bischerre” ( Lichtenstein1825) [= Bcharré, Lebanon]. Typelocality.“ Syria” and “Arabia” according to Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1833: 55). Knowing Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s itinerary, we restrict here the typelocality to Bcharré, Lebanon, and to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.