Species profile
Camaroptera olivacea
Camaroptera olivacea
Quick answer
TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 103) mentioned both males and females in his original description. From his acquisition catalogue he apparently had five specimens at hand when he described the species. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 51) referred to NRM 569705 [4701] as a “ type ”, which we treat as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected at Durban on 26 October 1839. The four paralectotypes are: NRM 537663 [4700], a mounted female collected at Durban on 5 December 1839; NRM 90166584 [6721], a female collected 15 August 1840 at Durban; NRM 90166583 [4699], a female collected 8 July 1839 at Durban; and a male [6720] from Durban, collected 18 June 1840, exchanged to Berlin in 1853 (but no longer in the ZMB collection). VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
- Scientific name
- Camaroptera olivacea
- Family
- Cisticolidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Camaroptera
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