Stigmatops argentauris patasiwa Stresemann

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Stigmatops argentauris patasiwa Stresemann

Stigmatops argentauris patasiwa Stresemann, 1912a: 345 (Lusaolate (Nordküste von Ceram)).

Now Lichmera argentauris (Finsch, 1870) . See White and Bruce, 1986: 399, and Higgins et al., 2008: 660.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 694334 , adult male, collected on Lusaolate Island , off the north coast of Seram (5 Ceram), Moluccas, Indonesia, on 27 August 1911, by Erwin Stresemann (no. 869) on the II Freiburger Molukken-Expedition. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Stresemann gave his unique field number of the holotype; later, he ( Stresemann, 1914a: 141) listed his type series of one male and four females, all collected on 27 August. The three paratypes in AMNH are: AMNH 694335 (Stresemann no. 866), AMNH 694336 (870), AMNH 694337 (868); the fourth paratype is in RMNH ( Dekker and Quaisser, 2006: 27). Neither White and Bruce (1986: 490) nor I were able to find Lusaolate Island. However, Stresemann (1914a: 141) noted that Lusaolate Island was close to the north coast of Seram, east of Sawai Bay, 02.52S, 129.12E (USBGN, 1982a).