Phyllopneuste gracilis Brehm

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 : 58-59

Phyllopneuste gracilis Brehm

Phyllopneuste gracilis Brehm, 1855: 232 (Orient).

Now Phylloscopus trochilus acredula (Linnaeus, 1758) . See Hartert, 1907e: 509, Hartert, 1918a: 29, and Urban et al., 1997: 353.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 455187 , adult male, collected in Wadi Halfa , 21.55N, 31.20E (Times Atlas), Sudan, on 3 April 1850, by Oskar Brehm. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert (1907e: 509) decided that this much elongated specimen collected by Oskar Brehm in Wadi Halfa was the specimen referred to in Brehm’s (1855: 232) description as ‘‘sehr gestreckt und lang, im Orient’’; and by citing it as the type, conferred lectotype status on it. Brehm’s label bears the name Phylopneuste (sic) gracilis in his hand.

AMNH 455188–455193 were cataloged as gracilis . AMNH 455188 from Lappland is identified by Brehm as Phyopneuste (sic) septentrionalis, but the species name is marked out and no other name supplied. I do not consider this specimen a paralectotype. I did not find AMNH 455189 in the collection. AMNH 455190–455193 were exchanged to ZFMK; if they are identified as gracilis in Brehm’s hand, they may be paralectotypes.

Due to a typographical error, the page in the AMNH copy of Brehm (1855) on which gracilis is described is incorrectly numbered as ‘‘332’’; 232 is the correct number.