Stoparola cerviniventris Sharpe

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 : 84

Stoparola cerviniventris Sharpe Eumyias indigo delicata Deignan Muscicapa indigo ferrugeneiventris Wolters

Stoparola cerviniventris Sharpe, 1887: 444 (Kina Balu).

Now Eumyias indigo cerviniventris ( Sharpe, 1887) . See Hartert, 1920: 491, Watson et al., 1986b: 324, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 148–149.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 605233 , adult male, collected on Mount Kinabalu , 3000 ft, 06.03N, 116.32E (Times Atlas), Sabah, Malaysia, on 11 March 1887, by John Whitehead (no. 1094). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Sharpe, in the original description, did not designate a type or say how many specimens he had. He described only the male, and because the description appeared in 1887, any specimens he had would have been collected on Whitehead’s first ascent of Kinabalu. Whitehead (in Sharpe and Whitehead, 1889: 204) commented: ‘‘Only one specimen was collected during the first expedition at about 3000 feet, and the species is decidedly rare at this elevation.’’ Thus, AMNH 605233 is the holotype. It is marked ‘‘Type RBS[harpe]’’ on Whitehead’s label and bears a Rothschild type label.

Smythies (2000: 544) used Eumyias i. delicata Deignan, 1947, a name proposed by Deignan as a nomen novum for Stoparola cerviniventris , preoccupied by Digenea cerviniventris Sharpe, 1879 , when both forms are included in the genus Eumyias . A second nomen novum, Muscicapa indigo ferrugeneiventris Wolters, 1950 , was also proposed when Stoparola cerviniventris was included in the genus Muscicapa . Neither of these new names is required, regardless of whether cerviniventris is included in Muscicapa or Eumyias , as Digenea cerviniventris Sharpe, 1879 is now in the genus Ficedula (5 Ficedula tricolor cerviniventris ) (see Vaurie, 1953b: 492, Watson et al., 1986b: 324, and ICZN, 1999: 62, Arts. 59.3 and 59.4). The type of the replacement names is the same as that of Stoparola cerviniventris .