Pteropus capistratus subsp. capistratus Peters 1876

Pteropus capistratus subsp. capistratus Peters 1876, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876: 316.

Type Locality: Papua New Guinea. The type locality was initially given as New Ireland Isl., but this is clearly incorrect (see Flannery and White, 1991). The type locality is probably the Duke of York group or New Britain Isl.