Ptilotis penicillata ladasi Mathews

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Ptilotis penicillata ladasi Mathews

Ptilotis penicillata ladasi Mathews, 1912a: 413 (West Australia (East Murchison)).

Now Lichenostomus penicillatus carteri (Campbell, 1899) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 382, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 255–256, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 608– 609.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 695572 , adult male, collected in East Murchison , Western Australia, Australia, on 22 September 1909, by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3936) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and the range as ‘‘Mid Westralia.’’ The holotype bears Whitlock’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. Paratypes are: Lake Way, East Murchison, AMNH 695569 (Mathews no. 3301), male, 19 July 1909 ; East Murchison , AMNH 695570 (3937), male, 1 October 1909, AMNH 695571 (3938), male, 1 October 1909, AMNH 695573 (3935), female immature, 23 September 1909, AMNH 695574 , female, 29 October 1909, all collected by F.L. Whitlock ; Carnarvon , AMNH 695576 (9735), male juvenile, 18 September 1911, AMNH 695577 , male, 11 August 1911, AMNH 695578 (9734), male, 6 August 1911, AMNH 695582 (9736), female, 6 August 1911, all collected by Thomas Carter. Other specimens from Carnarvon were collected after the publication of the name on 31 January 1912 .

Whitlock (1910) reported on his 1909 collection, noting that on 17 September 1909, he prepared to set out from Wiluna, 26.36S, 120.13E (USBGN, 1957), to visit ‘‘Milly Pool, some 20 miles or thereabouts to the north-west of the township, and lying on the stock route from Peak Hill and the Gascoyne and Ashburton Rivers.’’ He stayed at Milly Pool until 6 November ( Whitlock, 1910: 186–187), during which time the holotype of Ptilotis penicillata ladasi was collected.