Spinus citrinelloides hypostictus Reichenow, 1904b: 275

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 : 58

Spinus citrinelloides hypostictus Reichenow, 1904b: 275 .

Now: Crithagra hyposticta hyposticta (Reichenow, 1904) ; but see Blake et al. (1968: 213).

Syntype: ZMB 27514 (B 18633, Fischer no. 950), skin, former mount, female, juvenile, collected at “Gross Aruscha”, 18.07.1883 .

Syntype: ZMB 47.46 , skin, male, collected by K. Kittenberger at “ Moshi (Kilimandjaro)”, 24.06.1903 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.40318 , skin, collected by W.L.H. von der Marwitz at “Ngomingi”, 17.08.1899 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.40302 , skin, collected by F. Fülleborn at Tembo, 09.07.1898 .

Syntype: ZMB 2000.40831 , skin, collected by F. Fülleborn at “Rupira”, 21.09.1899 .

Syntype (missing): collected by Hunt and Johnston in the “ Kilimandjaro ” region .

Syntype (missing): collected by A. Sharpe and A. Whyte at “Somba” [06].

Type locality: “Ostafrika vom Kilimandscharo bis zum Niassagebiet” ( East Africa from Kilimanjaro Region to Niassa), from the original description and localities of the syntypes.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but both sexes were described, more than one specimen was measured, and the examined specimens were mentioned by their collecting data (locality, month, collector). Therefore the above-listed specimens are regarded as syntypes. The whereabouts of the specimens from the further listed localities are unknown [“ Kilimandscharo ” (Hunt, Johnston), “Somba” (Sharpe, Whyte)]; we found no traces of them in BMNH and AMNH.

ZMB 27514 was inventoried as Citrinella melanops . Fischer spent several days (10–22 July 1883) in the Arusha area, mainly around Mount Meru (now Arusha National Park). Sclater (1930: 826) gave for Spinus citrinelloides hypostictus Reichenow “type in Berlin from Moshi, Kilimanjaro ”. However, this was not accepted as valid designation of a lectotype ( ICZN 1999) as it was unclear that the specimen had been chosen from the series as given in the original description.