Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert

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Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert

Ptilotis meekiana Rothschild and Hartert, 1907: 482 (head of Aroa River, 4600 ft.).

Now Ptiloprora meekiana meekiana ( Rothschild and Hartert, 1907) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 413, Coates, 1990: 267, and Higgins et al., 2008: 657.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696596 , adult male, collected at the head of the Aroa River , 4600 ft, 09.00S, 147.00E (PNG, 1984), Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 20 May 1905, by Albert S. Meek (no. A.2199). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert cited the unique field number of the holotype in the original description and listed their type series, including Meek field numbers. Paratypes are: head of Aroa River, AMNH 696594 (Meek no. A.2255), 28 May 1905, AMNH 696595 (A.2214), 23 May 1905, males ; Bihagi , head of Mambare River, AMNH 696597 (A.2595), male, AMNH 696598 (A.2591), female, AMNH 696599 (A.2593), sex?, but published as male, all three collected on 11 March 1906 .