Melilestes megarhynchus stresemanni Hartert, 1930

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Melilestes megarhynchus stresemanni Hartert

Melilestes megarhynchus stresemanni Hartert, 1930b: 45 (Hollandia) .

Now Melilestes megarhynchus stresemanni Hartert, 1930 . See Higgins, et al., 2008: 630.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 294370 , adult male, collected at Jayapura (5 Hollandia), 02.32S, 140.42E ( USBGN, 1982a), Papua Province, Indonesia, on 13 October 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2835).

COMMENTS: Hartert cited Mayr’s unique field number of the holotype in the original description, noting that Mayr collected two males at Hollandia and a female in the Cyclops Mountains ; he also included in his type series Doherty’s specimens from Takar in the Rothschild Collection. As explained under the previous form, all of Mayr’s specimens are now in AMNH. Paratypes of stresemanni are: AMNH 693735–693738 , three males and one female from Takar collected by Doherty ; AMNH 693739 , male from Terfia (5 Tarfia, near Takar ) collected by Doherty ; AMNH 693740 , female from the Cyclops Mountains collected by Mayr ; AMNH 693741 , male from Hollandia collected by Mayr.