Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940

Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand View in CoL

Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940: 12 View in CoL (Bernhard Camp, altitude 50 meters, Idenburg River, Netherland [sic] New Guinea).

Now Cinnyris jugularis idenburgi Rand, 1940 View in CoL . See Coates, 1990: 305–308, and Cheke and Mann, 2008a: 296–297.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 305657 About AMNH , adult male, collected at Bernhard Camp , 50 m, ca. 03.30S, 139.15E ( Archbold et al., 1942, map 1), Taritatu ( 5 Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Indonesia, on 22 March 1939, by Richard Archbold, Austin L. Rand, and W.B. Richardson on the 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (no. 10213). GoogleMaps

COMMENTS: The AMNH number of the holotype was given in the original description. Paratypes, all from Bernhard Camp, are: AMNH 342402–342409, two adult males, one immature male, four females, and one unsexed. AMNH 342409 was sent to MZB in May 1957.

Rand (1940: 12) discussed treating idenburgi as a subspecies of a separate species, C. clementiae , and this was further mentioned by Coates (1990: 306). Schodde and Mason (1999: 725–726) discussed the issues involved, suggesting four species in the superspecies jugularis ; Cheke and Mann (2008a: 296) thought that the jugularis complex could comprise three species. Additional collecting in the Ramu River area is needed, as was suggested by Gilliard and LeCroy (1968: 31), where a female indistinguishable from C. j. frenatus and a male indistinguishable from C. j. idenburgi were collected at Aiome.

The 1938–1939 Archbold Expedition was a joint expedition with the Netherlands East Indies government and was also known as the Indisch-Amerikaansche Expeditie. A summary of the expedition will be found in Archbold et al. (1942).