Icterus spurius phillipsi Dickerman and Warner

Icterus spurius phillipsi Dickerman and Warner, 1962: 311 (1 mile west of Acámbaro, Guanajuato, México).

Now Icterus spurius phillipsi Dickerman and Warner, 1962 . See Blake, 1968: 162; Scharf and Kren, 1996: 3; Dickinson, 2003: 770; Dickerman, 2007: 34; and Fraga, 2011: 770.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 817691, adult male, collected 1 mi west of Acámbaro, 20.01N, 101.42W (Times atlas), Guanajuato, Mexico, on 7 May 1958, by Robert W. Dickerman (no. 8746). From the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History (no. 14167, formerly Minnesota Museum of Natural History, MMNH).

COMMENTS: In the original description, Dickerman and Warner gave the MMNH number of the holotype and noted (on p. 312) that they examined 80 specimens of phillipsi. Because Dickerman and Warner borrowed widely for their study and because none of the AMNH specimens have an indication that they were considered paratypes of phillipsi, I have been unable to verify that any of the paratypes are in AMNH.

Fraga (2011: 770) treated I. spurius as monotypic.