Lichmera alboauricularis olivacea Mayr, 1938

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Lichmera alboauricularis olivacea Mayr

Lichmera alboauricularis olivacea Mayr (in Mayr and Camras), 1938: 468 (Ifar, Sentani Lake, northern New Guinea).

Now Lichmera alboauricularis olivacea Mayr, 1938 . See Coates, 1990: 297–298, and Higgins et al., 2008: 662–663.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 450933 , adult male, collected at Ifaar (5 Ifar), 02.34S, 140.31E ( USBGN, 1982a), Sentani Lake , Papua Province, Indonesia, on 24 (not 27) September 1928, by Ernst Mayr (no. 2558). From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mayr gave the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description, and listed his type series as three adult males from the type locality, two adult males from Marienberg, and two males and one female from the lower Ramu River, both latter localities in Papua New Guinea. Of the seven paratypes, three are in AMNH: Ifaar, collected by Mayr, AMNH 294335, male, 2 October 1928; AMNH 694232, sex? [male], 1 October 1928; Ramu River, collected by E. Tappenbeck, AMNH 694233, male, 14 January 1899. The Tappenbeck specimen had undoubtedly been exchanged to Rothschild from ZMB, and the other paratypes from the lower Ramu are probably in ZMB; the Marienberg specimens were collected on the Crane Pacific Expedition ( Mayr and Camras, 1938: 463) and are in FMNH. See Hartert (1930b: 48) and Mayr (1930: 24–26) for an account of Mayr’s expedition; Stresemann (1923: 56) discussed Tappenbeck’s specimens.