Microeca viridiflava Rothschild and 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 : 241-242

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/313.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12778099
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C087C0-9EEF-10F6-FD0E-4C010A74FD79
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Microeca viridiflava Rothschild and Hartert
status

Treatment

Microeca viridiflava Rothschild and Hartert, 1900: 26 (6500 feet on Mt. Cameron).

Now Microeca papuana A.B. Meyer, 1875 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 183–184.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 604708 About AMNH , adult female, collected on Mount Cameron , 6500 ft, 08.50S, 147.15E ( USBGN, 1943), Owen Stanley Range, Central Province, Papua New Guinea, on 1 August 1896, by A.S. Anthony. From the Rothschild Collection. GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: Rothschild and Hartert designated their single specimen collected by Anthony and bearing the above data as the holotype in the original description. They also listed a specimen from the Eafa district, one from the Kotoi District, and ‘‘some collected by Emil Weiske on the Aroa River’ ’. Paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 604709 About AMNH , unsexed, Kotoi District , August 1898 GoogleMaps ; AMNH 604710 About AMNH , unsexed, Eafa District , 1000–3000 ft, 1898 ; and AMNH 604728 About AMNH , female [immature], Aroa River, 4000 ft, December 1899, by Weiske. The last specimen is the only one collected by Weiske that came to AMNH .

Rothschild and Hartert (1901c: 44) noted that their Microeca viridiflava was the same as Microeca papuana , and Hartert (1901b: 425, pl. 7) figured it.