Malurus alboscapulatus mafulu Mayr and Rand

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 : 102

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12777476
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9E7A-1062-FF78-4CBA089BFCE4
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scientific name	Malurus alboscapulatus mafulu Mayr and Rand
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Malurus alboscapulatus mafulu Mayr and Rand, 1937: 10 (Mafulu, altitude 1250 meters, Central Division, Territory of Papua).

Now Malurus alboscapulatus naimii Salvadori and D’Albertis, 1876 View in CoL . See Schodde, 1982: 101.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 420175 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Mafulu , 08.31S, 147.01E ( Frith and Beehler, 1998: 569, converted to degrees and minutes), 1250 m, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 16 October 1933, by Richard Archbold and Austin L. Rand (no. 1735). From the 1933–1934 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was cited in the original description. The type series comprised 40 specimens from five localities. The 39 paratypes are: Mafulu, AMNH 420172–420174 About AMNH , 420176–420183 About AMNH , 420202–420215 About AMNH , 420220 About AMNH , 420221 About AMNH , and 420224 ; Bella Vista , AMNH 420184–420186 About AMNH , 420216 About AMNH , 420218 About AMNH , and 420219 ; Ononge , AMNH 420169– 420171 About AMNH ; Mt. Tafa , AMNH 420168 About AMNH ; and Ero Creek, AMNH 420223 About AMNH . Of these, AMNH 420170 About AMNH and 420206 were exchanged with the FMNH, and AMNH 420224 About AMNH was sent to the Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby. I did not find AMNH 420182 in the collection .