Pomarea ribbei 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 : 201-202

Pomarea ribbei Hartert

Pomarea ribbei Hartert, 1895: 485 (Munia, Ins. Salomonis) .

Now Monarcha erythrostictus (Sharpe, 1888) . See Hartert, 1920: 503, and del Hoyo et al., 2006: 305.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 655329 , adult male, collected on Munia Island , off the southern end of Fauro Island , 06.55S, 156.05E (Times Atlas), Shortland Group, Solomon Islands, on 27 September 1893, by Carl Wahnes and Carl Ribbe. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Hartert did not designate a type in the original description, but stated that he had two males and a female collected on 27 and 28 September. Hartert (1920: 503), by listing the male collected on 27 September as the type, designated it the lectotype; he also noted its synonymy with erythrostictus at that time. Only the lectotype was sexed on the original label (as a male), and the other two specimens had the sex added in different ink. In fact, all three specimens are males with the white eyespot. The two paralectotypes are AMNH 655330 and 655331, both collected on 28 September 1893 by the same collectors .

Pomarea ribbei was not listed by Watson et al. (1986c: 506).