Hirundo holomelas Sundevall, 1850: 108

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Hirundo holomelas Sundevall, 1850: 108 .

VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ Hab. ad Portum Natal.”

CURRENT STATUS: Psalidoprocne pristoptera holomelas ( Sundevall, 1850) , Hirundinidae ( Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 476) .

STATUS REFERENCE: Sclater (1930: 586; monotypic), Peters (1960b: 128; as P. holomelaena holomelaena (Sundevall)) . White (1961: 65) and Keith et al. (1992: 130–131; as P. pristoptera holomelaena ), Clancey et al. (1980: 161; as P. holomelas holomelas (Sundevall)) .

TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 108) gave data for both male and female in his type description. From his acquisition catalogue it appears that he had 13 specimens available. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 69) referred to NRM 569775 [7106] as a “type”, treated here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 18 July 1840 in Durban. The 12 paralectotypes are: NRM 90145211 [4786], a juvenile collected 15 September 1840 in Durban; NRM 90145210 [7110], a female collected 18 July 1840 in Durban; NRM 90145212 [7105], a male collected 23 December 1840 in Durban; NRM 555684 [7109], a juvenile female collected 23 December 1840 in Durban; NRM 90145209 [7107], a male collected 8August 1840 in Durban; NRM 537973 [7108], a mounted female collected 9April 1840 in Durban;RMNH. AVES.88913[4781],a male collected 9August 1839 in Durban, exchanged to Leiden in 1850; GNM Av Ex 522 [4782], a mounted male collected 9 August 1839 in Durban, exchanged to Göteborg in 1850; a male [4784] collected 9 August 1839 in Durban, exchanged to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); a female [7104] collected 25 December 1840 in Durban, exchanged to Uppsala in 1857; MZUL L839/3012 [4785], a juvenile collected 15 September 1839 in Durban and MZUL L839/3013 [4783], a male collected 10 August 1839 in Durban, both exchanged to Lund in 1850.

VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban , KwaZulu-Natal .

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