Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert

Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert View in CoL

Philemon novaeguineae subtuberosus Hartert ( in Rothschild and Hartert), 1896b: 238 (Fergusson Island).

Now Philemon buceroides subtuberosus Hartert, 1896 View in CoL . See Salomonsen, 1967: 409, Coates, 1990: 252–254, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 289–290, and Higgins et al., 2008: 680–681.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 697144 About AMNH , adult male, collected on Fergusson Island , D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, on 9 October 1894, by Albert S. Meek. From the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: No type was designated in the original description, Hartert only saying that he had four adult specimens of both sexes. Rothschild and Hartert (1903b: 450) again did not mention a type, but later, Hartert (1919a: 177) listed the single male collected on 9 October 1894 as the type of subtuberosus, thereby designating it the lectotype. There are three paralectotypes, all collected on Fergusson Island in 1894: AMNH 697145, male, 2 October; AMNH 697148, female, 18 October; AMNH 697149, female, 18 October. Other specimens in AMNH were collected after the publication of the name.

Meek (1913: 45, 58) had his base camp at Nade ( 5 Nadi), ca. 09.40S, 150.42E, and remained there for four months in 1894.