Acanthopneuste floris Hartert

LeCroy, M., 2008, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 7. Passeriformes: Sylviidae, Muscicapidae, Platysteiridae, Maluridae, Acanthizidae, Monarchidae, Rhipiduridae, And Petroicidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 313 (1), pp. 1-287 : 63

Acanthopneuste floris Hartert

Acanthopneuste floris Hartert, 1898b: 114 ( Flores).

Now Phylloscopus presbytes floris (Hartert, 1898) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 347–348, and Mees, 2006: 161.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 450391 , adult male, collected on South Flores Island, 3500 ft, Indonesia, on 28 October 1896, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description or say how many specimens he examined. In his earlier ( Hartert, 1897d: 525) report on Everett’s collection from Flores, where these birds were referred to Acanthopneuste presbytes , he only said that he had a series from 3000 to 3500 ft. Seven Everett specimens from Flores came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection. Hartert (1920: 462) designated as lectotype a male collected by Everett on South Flores in October 1896. Two specimens bear those data; however, AMNH 450391 has the Rothschild type label, indicating that it was Hartert’s intent to designate that specimen as the type, and it was so cataloged at AMNH. To preserve consistency and avoid possible confusion in the future, I hereby designate AMNH 450391 the lectotype of Acanthopneuste floris . Paralectotypes are: AMNH 450392–450397, all from about 3500 ft and collected in October and November 1896. Two of the specimens also have the locality ‘‘Repok’’ noted on the back of the field label, which is Gunung Repok, 08.45S, 120.21E (BirdLife International, 2001: 2603).