Stigmatops indistincta nupta Stresemann

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Stigmatops indistincta nupta Stresemann

Stigmatops indistincta nupta Stresemann, 1912a: 344 (Manien (Aru-Inseln)).

Now Lichmera indistincta nupta (Stresemann, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 347, and Higgins et al., 2008: 661–662.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694058 , adult male, collected on Manien Island , 05.45S, 134.45E ( USBGN, 1943), Aru Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 19 November 1897, by Heinrich Kühn. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann said that the type, in the Rothschild Collection , was collected on Manien Island on 19 November 1897. The range was said to be the Aru Islands. Six specimens, including the type, came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. The five paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 694053 , male, AMNH 694054 , female, collected on Dobbo Island in February 1897 by W. Doherty ; AMNH 694055 , male, collected on Wokan Island on 7 October 1900 by Kühn ; AMNH 694056 , male, AMNH 694057 , female, collected at Afara , Barkey Island, on 25 November 1897 by Kühn. Of these, AMNH 694057 was exchanged to FMNH in the early 1960s. Stresemann (1912a: 345) gave measurements for 12 specimens, but did not indicate where they were housed .