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Issue: Vol. 5134 No. 4: 12 May 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-05-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5134.4.3
Page range: 521-560
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Avian type localities and the type specimens collected by Johan August Wahlberg in southern Africa

Research Associate, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701 South Africa. Wolwekraal Conservation and Research Organisation, P. O. Box 47, Prince Albert 6930, South Africa. 3South African Environmental Observation Network, Arid Lands Node, Kimberley, South Africa.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Zoology, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
Thysanoptera Phlaeothripinae Plectrothripini allometric growth new genus Nazonothrips

Abstract

Avian type specimens collected in southern Africa between 1839–1856 by J.A. Wahlberg for the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet; NRM) are listed. Each species account discusses collection sites, nomenclature, and taxonomy, and as needed, gives notes from Wahlberg’s journal of travel routes and camp sites that correct or modify type localities.

 

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