Diatropura progne ansorgei Neumann

Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393), pp. 1-165 : 30

Diatropura progne ansorgei Neumann Euplectes progne delacouri Wolters

Diatropura progne ansorgei Neumann, 1908d: 45 (Bulu-Bulu, Bihe´, Angola).

Now Euplectes progne delacouri Wolters, 1953 . See Hartert, 1919: 146; Wolters, 1953: 32; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 73–74; Craig, 1993b: 148– 149; Dean, 2000: 320; Dickinson, 2003: 726; Fry and Keith, 2004: 246–249; and Craig, 2010: 152.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 727464 , adult male, collected at Bulo-Bulo (= Bulu-Bulu), 12.05S, 17.37E ( Dean, 2000: 370), Bié (= Bihe´), Angola, on 3 October 1904, by W.J. Ansorge (no. x169). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description Neumann listed the type of ansorgei as a Rothschild specimen, male, collected by Ansorge at Bulu-Bulu on 3 October 1904 ; four such specimens came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection, but Neumann had himself marked Ansorge’s specimen no. x169 as ‘‘Typus.’’ Hartert (1919: 146) confirmed this specimen as the type of ansorgei. Neumann gave the range as Angola and Benguela. Paratypes are: Bulo-Bulo , Bie´ , AMNH 727465–727467 , males, 3 October 1904, collected by Ansorge (nos. x168, x165, x167, respectively) ; Canduc , Benguela, AMNH 727468 , 727469 , males, 5 January 1906, collected by Ansorge (nos. 20, 19, respectively) .

When this form is included in Euplectes , the name ansorgei is preoccupied by Euplectes (= Pyromelana ) ansorgei Hartert, 1899. Wolters (1953: 32) provided Euplectes progne delacouri as a replacement name. The two names share the same type.