Sporophila insulata Chapman, 1921

LeCroy, Mary, 2012, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 10. Passeriformes: Emberizidae: Emberizinae, Catamblyrhynchinae, Cardinalinae, Thraupinae, And Tersininae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (368), pp. 1-125 : 32

Sporophila insulata Chapman

Sporophila insulata Chapman, 1921a: 12 (Tumaco, southwestern Colombia).

Now Sporophila telasco (Lesson, 1828) . See Hellmayr, 1938: 214, Stiles, 2004, and Ridgely and Tudor, 2009: 637, 698.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 118142 , adult male, collected on Tumaco Island , 01.48N, 78.47W ( Paynter, 1997), Nariño, western Colombia, on 28 July 1912, by William B. Richardson.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Chapman cited the AMNH number of the holotype, listing the three paratypes that he examined. Paratypes are: AMNH 118141, 118143, males, considered immature by Chapman, and AMNH 118144, female, all collected on Tumaco Island, on 28 July 1912.

Until recently considered a full (Dickinson, 2003: 793), and perhaps endangered, species, Sporophila insulata was studied by Stiles (2004) on Bocagrande Island. His conclusion was that insulata is best considered a subspecies or color morph of S. telasco , with further study needed to determine which.