Pytelia percivali van Someren

Pytelia percivali van Someren, 1919: 56 (Loita) .

Now Pytilia melba percivali van Someren, 1919 . See Hartert, 1928: 196; Mayr et al., 1968: 314; Dickinson, 2003: 727; Fry and Keith, 2004: 354– 358; and Payne, 2010: 331.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 728744, adult female, collected at Loita, Kenya, on 9 July 1918, by A. Blayney Percival. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren said that the type of percivali was a specimen in the Rothschild Collection bearing the above data. Hartert (1928: 196) noted that the type was the only specimen from the Loita Plains (ca. 01.15S, 35.35E, Polhill, 1988), in the Rothschild Collection. Van Someren described both male and female, but did not say how many specimens he examined.