Species profile
Drymoica obscura
Drymoica obscura
Quick answer
TYPE MATERIAL: Sundevall (1850: 103 – 104) gave no indication that he had more than a single specimen. However, his acquisition catalogue shows that he had three specimens at hand when he described the species. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 41 – 42) referred to NRM 568770 [4707] as a “ type ”, treated here as a lectotype designation of this young male collected 21 September 1839 in Durban. The two paralectotypes are: NRM 568771 [6757], a male collected 20 December 1839 in Durban; and a male [4706] collected 1 October 1839 in Durban, exchanged to Berlin in 1870 (but no longer in the ZMB collection). VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
- Scientific name
- Drymoica obscura
- Family
- Sylviidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Drymoica
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