Thamnolaea subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887: 78

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 44

Thamnolaea subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887: 78 .

Now: Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris subrufipennis ( Reichenow, 1887) . See Deignan et al. (1964: 120).

Syntype: ZMB 28415 (Fischer no. 64), skin, male, collected “auf dem Weg nach Ussure” [on the way to Ussure], 12.10.[1885] .

Syntype: ZMB 28416 (Fischer no. 95), skin, female, collected in “Magala-Steppe, Usukuma”, 04.11.[1885] .

Syntype (missing): Fischer no. 222, female, collected in “Schasche”, [25.01.1886].

Type locality: Ussure [Ussure, Singida Region, Tanzania], Usukuma [Usukuma country, Mwanza Region, Tanzania] and Schasche [Mt Schasche, Mara Region, Tanzania], from the original description as well as localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen were given. Three specimens mentioned in Fischer (1884) (nos. 64, 95, 222) are regarded as syntypes. The whereabouts of no. 222 are unknown, and it was not listed in the ZMB catalogues. There is however a further Fischer specimen of that species (ZMB 27566, no. 677, female, Maurui, 03.02.1883), which was originally identified as Thamnolaea albiscapulata (Rüppell) , but is not regarded as a type specimen for T. subrufipennis .