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The generic nomenclature of the emeralds, Trochilini (Apodiformes: Trochilidae): two replacement generic names required

P.O. Box 180, Turramurra NSW 2074, Australia.
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Aves genus-group replacement names type species

Abstract

Many genus-level changes to the classification of Trochilini were enacted in Stiles et al. (2017b). We have since found that two further genera therein emended each require replacement names. The first of these requiring a replacement name is Uranomitra Reichenbach, 1854 [March], which is herewith interpreted as an additional synonym of Saucerottia Bonaparte, 1850, along with its junior synonym Cyanomyia Bonaparte, 1854a [May]. We show that both must have the same type species, as originally designated, Trochilus quadricolor Vieillot, 1822 = Ornismya cyanocephala Lesson, 1829. The second case in which a replacement name is required is Leucolia Mulsant & E. Verreaux, 1866, herewith interpreted as an additional synonym of Leucippus Bonaparte, 1850, with the same type species, Trochilus fallax Bourcier, 1843. We herein propose replacement names for both Uranomitra and Leucolia.

 

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    [1] Cabanis (1863) reproduced the text in a ‘facsimile’ style of this very rare sales catalogue, which became the main source for its content. Stresemann (1954) supported Cabanis’s view that new names should be credited to Wilhelm Deppe, the brother of the collector, Ferdinand Deppe, instead of Hinrich Lichtenstein, the curator at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. Mauersberger (1988) argued that authorship of the new names should be Lichtenstein, in Deppe, 1830, but although the new names were all credited to Lichtenstein, the only indication of authorship of the catalogue is apparently that of Wilhelm Deppe (Browning & Monroe 1991). Mauersberger (1988; see also Stresemann, in van Rossem 1934: 351) also noted that the only known copy, used by Cabanis, was subsequently lost. Fortunately, the copy was found in the Berlin Museum archives later, after Mauersberger’s death (Norbert Bahr, in litt., December 2020).

    [2] Originally published as a single large sheet, but in its bound form, comprising a title page plus 13 pages, mostly of tabulated details, of the three proposed kingdoms (Lapideum, Vegetabile, Animale).