Euplectes diadematus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878

Frahnert, Sylke, Turner, Donald A. & Bracker, Cordula, 2023, Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected by Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848 - 1886) in East Africa, Zootaxa 5334 (1), pp. 1-84 : 48

Euplectes diadematus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878 (in Reichenow 1878a): 88.

Now: Euplectes diadematus G.A. Fischer & Reichenow, 1878 . See Amadon et al. (1962: 66).

Holotype: ZMB 23367 (B 15054, Fischer no. 128), skin, former mount, male, collected at Malindi, 04.09.1877.

Type locality: Malindi [ Malindi, Kilifi County, Kenya], from the original description as well as locality of the holotype.

Remarks: In the original description no type was chosen, and there were no inventory numbers for specimens provided, but measurements for one specimen and the locality Malindi were given.As Fischer & Reichenow (1878b) listed only one specimen (no. 128) for this species, ZMB 23367 is the holotype.

Another Fischer specimen of this species from near Lamu, ZMB 2000.8155 (no. 556) is not included in the type series because of the different locality. Furthermore, there is a specimen of this species in the Heineanum collection MHH 4090 (skin, former mount, male, adult, Malindi) ( Quaisser & Nicolai 2006), but as there is no collecting date or the original collector’s label, and only one specimen was collected in 1877 ( Reichenow 1878a), it is not regarded as belonging to the type series (contra Quaisser & Nicolai 2006: 79). Fischer travelled alone along the Kenya coast (north at least to Malindi from June–December 1877), and again with the Denhardt brothers on their Tana River Expedition (May–December the following year 1878). Thus MHH 4090 may have been collected in 1878.