Pogonocichla ruficapilla Sundevall, 1850: 105

Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, Zootaxa 5134 (4), pp. 521-560 : 549-550

Pogonocichla ruficapilla Sundevall, 1850: 105 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Habitat in Caffraria inferiore s. propria.”

CURRENT STATUS: Seicercus ruficapilla ruficapilla ( Sundevall, 1850) ; Phylloscopidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 500) .

STATUS REFERENCE: Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 500 do not recognise ochraceiceps Clancey, 1975. Sclater 1930: 505, White 1960: 426 (in the genus Phylloscopus , recognise voelkeri Roberts, 1941), Clancey et al. 1980: 200 (recognise voelkeri, ochraceiceps and alacris Clancey, 1969), Traylor 1986b: 224 (recognises voelkeri, ochraceiceps and alacris in the genus Phylloscopus ), Urban et al. 1997: 364–365 (in the genus Phylloscopu s, do not recognise ochraceiceps).

TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 105) mentioned both male and female in his type description. According to his acquisition catalogue and catalogue of duplicates in combination, he must have had eight specimens at hand (note that in the latter manuscript he had moved the species to the genus Cryptolopha ). Gyldenstolpe (1926: 67) refers to NRM 568788 [6801] as a “type”; we treat this specimen as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 2 August 1840 in Durban. The seven paralectotypes are: NRM 535134 [6802], a mounted juvenile female collected 22 July 1840 in Durban; NRM 90192170 [6804], a male collected 4 June 1840 in Durban; NRM 568789 [6805], an adult female collected 5 June 1840 in Durban; NHMUK 1876.5.23.215 [6800], a male collected 16 July 1841 in Durban and sent on exchange to R.B. Sharpe in London on exchange in 1871 (still in the NHMUK collection); a specimen (sex unknown) [6803] collected 8 July (or February) 1840 in Durban, sent to Bergen, Norway; a specimen [6806] collected in Durban and sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer in the ZMB collection); a specimen [6807] collected 15 August 1840 in Durban and sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850 (but not found in the Naturalis collection).

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal .

COMMENTS: There is no entry in the journal for this day, but date and place of the type are in line with other specimens collected at the same time.