Cinnyris sericea vicina Mayr

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Cinnyris sericea vicina Mayr

Cinnyris sericea vicina Mayr, 1936: 5 (Simbang (Huon Gulf), Mand. Terr. of New Guinea).

Now Leptocoma aspasia vicina (Mayr, 1936) . See Beehler and Finch, 1985: 46, Coates, 1990: 304– 305, Dickinson, 2003: 707, Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 268–269.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 448980 , adult female, collected at Simbang , 06.35S, 147.50E ( USBGN, 1943), Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, on 21 August 1899, by E.O.A. Nyman. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of vicina as Doini Island and north coast of southeastern New Guinea between Collingwood Bay and Huon Gulf. The following are paratypes: Doini Island, collected by Zimmer, AMNH 295658– 295660 , two males, one female, November 1920 ; Kumusi River , collected by Meek, AMNH 687098–687102 , two males, two immature males, one female ; Haidana, Collingwood Bay , collected by Meek, AMNH 687103 , male, 13 April 1907 ; Simbang, collected by Nyman, AMNH 687104– 687116 , seven males, four immature males, two females, August and September 1899. AMNH 295659 and 295660 were exchanged to FMNH in the mid 1960s .

Beehler and Finch (1985: 46) and Coates (1990: 304) listed this species as Nectarinia aspasia , following Hachisuka (1952: 23) and Mees (1966: 257) who pointed out that, in the genus Cinnyris , Cinnyris sericea Lesson, 1827 was preoccupied by C [erthia] sericea Bechstein, 1811 (5 Cinnyris coccinigastra (Latham)) . Cinnyris aspasia Lesson and Garnot, 1828 , then becomes the next available specific name, and Nectarinia Illiger, 1811 , an older generic name than Cinnyris Cuvier, 1816 , should be used as the generic name. Because Hachisuka (1952) replaced sericea with aspasia before 1961, sericea is permanently invalid, even though the secondary homonyms concerned apply to taxa no longer considered congeneric (ICZN, 1999: 62, Art. 59.3), and should not have been resurrected by Dickinson (2003: 707) and Cheke and Mann (2008a: 268–269). See Browning and Monroe (1991: 384) and references therein for date of 1816 for publication of Cinnyris Cuvier.

Rand (1967: 240) did not recognize the subspecies vicina.