LOPHORINA SUPERBA LATIPENNIS

Irestedt, Martin, Batalha-Filho, Henrique, Ericson Fls, Per G. P., Christidis, Les & Schodde, Richard, 2017, Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomic consequences in a bird-of-paradise species complex, Lophorina-Ptiloris (Aves: Paradisaeidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181, pp. 439-470 : 465

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ROTHSCHILD, 1907

Lophorina superba latipennis Rothschild, 1907 View in CoL , Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 19: 92– type locality: Rawlinson Mountains , Huon Peninsula, PNG.

Lophorina superba connectens Mayr, 1930 , Ornithologische Monatsberichte 38: 180 – type locality: Herzog Range , PNG.

Range: mountains of the Huon Peninsula, and presumably Herzog and Adelbert Ranges.

Remarks: The identity of the Herzog Range population in the eastern cordillera, but adjacent to the Huon Peninsula mountains, is inferred from the haplogroup of the single specimen sampled. Further sampling is needed to establish the identity of that population and its interaction with addenda. Material from the Adelbert Range was not examined and identity there is presumed, following Beehler & Pratt (2016). Pratt (1982) recorded Adelbert specimens as slightly larger than in other populations of latipennis and addenda, but did not give taxonomically diagnostic details of female plumage.

One further taxon has been distinguished in Lophorina in recent literature: Lophorina superba pseudoparotia Stresemann, 1934 , Ornithologische Monatsberichte 42: 144, from the Hunstein Mountains in the central south Sepik River basin ( Mayr, 1962; Cracraft, 1992). It is known from a single specimen which Frith & Frith (1996) have shown to be an intergeneric hybrid between Lophorina superba and Parotia carolae .

References

Beehler BM, Pratt TK. 2016. Birds of New Guinea distribution, taxonomy, and systematics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Cracraft J. 1992. The species of the birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae): applying the phylogenetic species concept to a complex pattern of diversification. Cladistics 8: 1-43.

Frith CB, Frith D. 1996. The unique type specimen of the bird-of-paradise Lophorina superba pseudoparotia Stresemann, 1934 (Paradisaeidae), a hybrid of Lophorina superba x Parotia carolae. Journal fur Ornithologie 137: 515-521.

Mayr E. 1930. Die Unterarten des Kragenparadiesvogels (Lophorina superba). Ornithologische Monatsberichte 38: 178-180.

Mayr E. 1962. Paradisaeidae. In: Mayr E, Greenway JC Jr, eds. Check-list of birds of the world, Vol. 12. Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard, 181-204.

Pratt TK. 1982. Additions to the avifauna of the Adelbert Range, Papua New Guinea. Emu 82: 117-125.

Rothschild W. 1907. Description of a new bird-of-paradise (Lophorina minor latipennis). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 19: 92-93.

Stresemann E. 1934. Vier neue Unterarten von Paradiesvogeln. Ornithologische Monatsberichte 42: 144-147.

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