Zonaeginthus castanotis mouki Mathews

Zonaeginthus castanotis mouki Mathews, 1912a: 427 (Queensland (Rockhampton)).

Now Taeniopygia castanotis (Gould, 1837) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 358; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 761–762; Dickinson, 2003: 733; and Payne, 2010: 357.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 720125, adult male, collected at Rockhampton, 23.23S, 150.30E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in April 1891, received from T. Thorpe. From the Mathews Collection (no. 7334) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Queensland.’’ The following specimens are paratypes: Rockhampton, AMNH 720126 (Mathews no. 7336), AMNH 720127 (7335), males, May 1893 ; Queensland, AMNH 720129 (7332), male, 1892, AMNH 720130 (7333), male, 1894, AMNH 720131 (7331), female, 1894, all received from Thorpe. AMNH 720128 (14604), collected at Peak Downs, 25 January 1881, was not cataloged by Mathews until November 1912, after the publication of mouki on 31 January 1912 and is not considered a paratype .

T. castanotis has usually been considered a subspecies of T. guttata, but see Payne (2010: 357) for reasons to consider castanotis a separate species.