Lamprotornis porphyroplevron Sundevall 1850

Lamprotornis porphyroplevron Sundevall, 1850: 100. VERBATIM TYPE LOCALITY: “ E Caffraria, ubi frequens.” CURRENT STATUS: Notopholia corrusca corrusca (Nordmann, 1835); Sturnidae (Dickinson & Christidis 2014: 579, which corrects the species name). TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 100) mentioned both male and female in his original description. According to his acquisition catalogue he had 11 specimens available. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 7–8) referred to NRM 568743 [6414] as a “type”; which we treat here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 21 August 1840 in Durban. The ten paralectotypes are: NRM 90172195 [4685], collected 16 June 1839 or 1840 in Durban; NRM 553765 [4690], an adult female collected 18 June 1839 in Durban; NRM 554882 [4692], a juvenile female collected 3 November 1839 in Durban; NRM 537724 [4687], a mounted male collected 8 December 1839 in Durban; a male [4686] without data was sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); a male [6423], collected in “Caffr.” before 1845 and sent as a gift to the high school in Örebro, Sweden, in 1857; a male [6424] without data sent as a gift to the high school in Uppsala in 1857; an adult female [4688], collected 4 July 1839 in Durban, sent as a gift to the high school in Oskarshamn, Sweden, in 1865; an adult female [4689] collected 16 June 1839 in Durban, and sent as a gift to the high school in Falun, Sweden, in 1865; and an adult female [4691], collected 8 December 1839 in Durban, and sent as a gift to the high school in Jönköping, Sweden, in 1865. VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. COMMENTS: Wahlberg’s journal and labelled specimens show that he was in Durban from March to early October 1840.
Published as part of Dean, W. Richard J., Åhlander, Erik & Johansson, Ulf S., 2022, Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa, pp. 521-560 in Zootaxa 5134 (4) on page 552, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6541737
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