Suiriri suiriri subsp. burmeisteri, Kirwan, Guy M., Steinheimer, Frank D., Raposo, Marcos A. & Zimmer, Kevin J., 2014

Kirwan, Guy M., Steinheimer, Frank D., Raposo, Marcos A. & Zimmer, Kevin J., 2014, Nomenclatural corrections, neotype designation and new subspecies description in the genus Suiriri (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae), Zootaxa 3784 (3), pp. 224-240 : 234-235

Muscicapa jocosa ‘Lund MS’ Reinhardt, 1870: 152

Collecting / reference locality: Minas Gerais state, at Lagoa Santa (19°38’S, 43°53’W), Curvelo (18°45’S, 44°25’W), Aldea da Estiva (ca. 19°35’S, 48°00’W) and the road to Paracatú (17°13’S, 46°52’W).

The name Muscicapa jocosa , deriving from a Lund4 MS cited by Reinhardt (1870: 152), is based on a mixed series of specimens including both S. affinis Burmeister and S. s. burmeisteri subsp. nov. (cf. Vasconcelos et al. 2006: 223–224, Krabbe 2007: 344 5). The application of this name by Reinhardt (1870: 150–152), however, does not qualify as an original description. It translates from the original Danish as:

4. Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–80); for biographic details and information on his collections, see Krabbe (2007). He was resident at Lagoa Santa (cf. Burmeister 1853).

5. Known specimens of Lund’s collection of S. affinis Burmeister are BMNH 1888.1.13.639 (female, Lagoa Santa, 13 July 1847); ZMUC 80261 (female, Lagoa Santa, 8 Nov. 1835); ZMUC 80264 (male, Lagoa Santa, 11 March 1836); ZMUC 80263 (male, Paracatú, 6 Sept. 1834). Known specimens of Lund’s collection of the taxon S. s. burmeisteri subsp. nov. are ZMUC 80262 (male, Paracatú, 6 Sept. 1834) and ZMUC 27-2-1839 -126 (male, Aldeia da Estives, before/in 1839) (data from Vasconcelos et al. 2006: 223, Krabbe 2007: 344; Jon Fjeldså in litt., August 2012).

‘ Elainea affinis Burm. [...] This Elainea is truly one of the most easily recognizable and most peculiarly coloured species; I know no other, with which it could be confused, and one may therefore rightly wonder, why Lund has not given it the name, under which it has been described by Burmeister with reference to his [Lund’s] written notes **), but in reality Lund did not name it like that [ affinis ]; in his notes and on the labels attached to the collected specimens it carries the name “ Muscicapa jocosa ”; how Burmeister could make this mistake I cannot tell, but the species has now in print received the name “ affinis ”, and thus it must keep this... ’6