Penthetria laticauda suahelica van Someren,
1921c:
121 (Nairobi River).
Now Euplectes ardens suahelicus (van Someren,
1921). See van Someren, 1922a: 151; Hartert,
1928: 194; Moreau and Greenway, 1962: 73;
Craig, 1993b: 141–143; Zimmerman et al., 1999:
547–548; Dickinson, 2003: 726; Fry and Keith,
2004: 239–242; and Craig, 2010: 144–145.
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 727204, adult male,
collected on the Nairobi River, Kenya, on 4
April 1917. From the V.G.L van Someren
Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
COMMENTS: In the original description,
van Someren designated as type of suahelicus
a specimen in the Rothschild Collection
bearing the above data. Only one specimen
collected on that date came to AMNH with
the Rothschild Collection, and it bears a
Rothschild type label. In the description, van
Someren gave the range as East Africa, and
later (van Someren, 1922a: 151) included the
following localities in suahelicus: Kerio,
Kirimiri, Elgon, Kisumu, Maraquet, Elgeyu,
Burnt Forest, Kikuyu, Narobi, and Ukamba.
The following specimens came to AMNH
with the Rothschild Collection and are
considered paratypes of suahelicus. Burnt
Forest, AMNH 727199–727201, two males,
one female, 15–22 September 1918; Nairobi
Plains, AMNH 727202, 727203, males, 2 June
1918; Nairobi or Nairobi River, AMNH
727205–727208, three males, one female,
January–September 1917; Kirimiri, AMNH
727214, male, 17 April 1917, all from the van
Someren Collection. Also Kikuyu, AMNH
727217, male, February 1919, collected by
H.J. Allen Turner; and AMNH 727218, male,
3 December 1894, collected by O. Neumann.
Because van Someren worked in the Rothschild
Collection, these last two specimens
would have been available to him and so are
treated as paratypes.
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