Cyanerpes cyaneus violaceus J.T. Zimmer, 1942

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Cyanerpes cyaneus violaceus J.T. Zimmer

Cyanerpes cyaneus violaceus J.T. Zimmer, 1942: 8 (Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil).

Now Cyanerpes cyaneus violaceus J.T. Zimmer, 1942 . See Storer, 1970: 397, Isler and Isler, 1999: 344–347, and Dickinson, 2003: 814.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 31363 , adult male, collected at Chapada dos Guimarães (5 Chapada), 15.26S, 55.45W ( Paynter and Traylor, 1991), Mato Grosso, Brazil, on 28 August 1885, by Herbert H. Smith.

COMMENTS: Zimmer cited the AMNH number of the holotype in the original description and listed the specimens he examined: Chapada, 21 males in addition to the type, eight females ; Abrilongo, two males; Tapirapoan, two males, one female; Utiarity, one female. Many of the original large series of these H.H. Smith specimens were exchanged with other collections long before Zimmer named violaceus, and apparently often the catalog was not so marked. The number of Smith specimens of violaceus now in AMNH corresponds to the number of specimens examined by Zimmer and I consider them paratypes of the name. Paratypes: Chapada, AMNH 31348–31350 , 31353 , 31354 , 31356 , 31357 , 31359 , 31364 –

31367, 31369, 31371–31374, 31376, 31379, 31382, 31384–31389, 57995, 57998, 57999, 21 males, eight females; Abrilongo, AMNH 31351 , 31352 , two males ; Tapirapoan, AMNH 127196 , 127197 , 127199 , two males, one female ; Utiarity, AMNH 128202 , female. AMNH 31365 had been exchanged to Clarence A. Smith and returned to AMNH with that collection in June 1896 and renumbered at that time as AMNH 67165 .