Philentoma dubium 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 : 189

Philentoma dubium Hartert

Philentoma dubium Hartert, 1894: 477 (Bunguran) . Now Philentoma pyrhoptera dubia Hartert, 1894 .

See Smythies, 2000: 557.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 652699 , adult male, collected on Natuna Besar (5 Great Natuna or Bunguran Island), Natuna Islands, Indonesia, on 6 October 1893, by Alfred Everett. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Hartert did not designate a type but stated that he had two males and two females collected on Bunguran on the 6th and 9th of October 1893. Later, Hartert (1920: 499) listed the male collected on 6 October as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. Paralectotypes are: AMNH 652698 , male, 9 October (marked ‘‘Cotype’’) ; AMNH 652700 , female, 6 October (‘‘type of ♀ descr’’) ; and AMNH 652701 , female, 9 October (‘‘Cotype’’) .

The Natuna Islands lie between Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, but are administered as part of Riau Province, eastern Sumatra, Indonesia ( Smythies, 2000: 10). Everett’s base on Natuna Besar was at the foot of Mount Ranai ( Rothschild, 1894a: 468), on the eastern side of the island, inland from the settlement of Ranai ( Smythies, 2000: 10), at 03.55N, 108.23E (USBGN, 1982a).

Watson et al. (1986c: 471) and del Hoyo et al. (2006: 328) treated this genus in the family Monarchidae ; Dickinson (2003: 456) placed it as a genus incertae sedis at the end of the Platysteiridae .