Chloropeta gracilirostris bensoni Amadon

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 : 35

Chloropeta gracilirostris bensoni Amadon

Chloropeta gracilirostris bensoni Amadon, 1954: 141 (mouth of River Luapula, Lake Mweru, Northern Rhodesia (9 ° 23 9 S, 28 ° 30 9 E )).

Now Chloropeta gracilirostris bensoni Amadon, 1954 . See Urban et al., 1997: 128.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 708881 , adult male, collected at the mouth of the Luapula River on Lake Mweru (09.23S, 28.30E, as given in the original description), Zambia, on 20 September 1953, by C.W. Benson (no. 2078).

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. The description was based on six specimens, including the holotype, collected by Benson in the same locality and three specimens collected by H. Brédo at Nkole, near the southern end of Lake Moero (5 L. Mweru) in January 1938 and examined by Chapin in RMCA (see Chapin, 1953b: 450– 452). One paratype is AMNH 708882, female, presented to AMNH by Benson along with the holotype. The three specimens in RMCA are also paratypes ( Louette et al., 2002: 42), and the other four paratypes collected by Benson are probably in BMNH.