Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis, Salomonsen, 1966

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salo-

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Melithreptus laetior normantoniensis Salomonsen, 1966a: 7 (Normanton, northwestern Queensland, Australia).

Now considered an intergrade between M. g. gularis and M. g. laetior . See Salomonsen, 1967: 398, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 276– 277, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 672–673.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691532 , adult male, collected at Normanton , 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 31 January 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 3873). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Salomonsen cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘ Northwestern Queensland, south of Gulf of Carpentaria.’’ The following specimens are paratypes: Leichhardt River , 3 July 1910, AMNH 691529 , male ; Normanton, collected by Kemp in 1913 and 1914, AMNH 691530 , 691531 , 691533–691542 , five males, four females, two sex?, one juvenile. Salomonsen (1966a: 7) doubtfully included specimens from the Cooktown and Cairns areas ; therefore they are excluded from the type series (ICZN, 1999: 76, Art. 72.4.1). I did not find 691542, juv., in the collection.