Ptilotis keartlandi mungi Mathews

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Ptilotis keartlandi mungi Mathews

Ptilotis keartlandi mungi Mathews, 1912a: 409 (North-West Australia (Mungi)).

Now Lichenostomus keartlandi (North, 1895) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 381, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 247, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 605–606.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695284 , adult male, collected at Mungi Rockhole , 18.45S, 123.44E ( Johnstone and Storr, 2004: 511), 8 miles southeast of Mount Alexander, West Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, on 18 June 1911, by J.P. Rogers (no. 1763). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9278) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of mungi as ‘‘North-West Australia, Interior.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Rogers original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels, a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1924: pl. 538, upper fig., opp. p. 524, text p. 525), where it is confirmed as the type of mungi. The catalog number written on the Rothschild type label is incorrect and refers to the number published for Ptilotis keartlandi alexandrensis (see below). Eleven additional specimens collected by Rogers at Mungi Rockhole in June 1911 are paratypes: five males, five females, one sex?, AMNH 695282, 695283, 695285–695293 (Mathews nos. 9272–9277, 9279–9282. Mathews did not catalog the unsexed specimen).