Subspecies Malurus (Musciparus) leucopterus leuconotus Gould, 1865

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• Malurus leuconotus Gould, J. 1865. Description of two new Australian birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 198-199 [Date published Jun 1865] [198].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM O.26356 adult ♂, SA: Mt Lyndhurst, 48 km east of Farina.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stone, W. in Stone, W. & Mathews, G.M. 1913. A list of the species of Australian birds described by John Gould, with the location of the type-specimens. Austral Avian Records 1: 129-180 [Date published 28 Feb 1913] [165] (erroneous claim that type held in BM(NH)); Kinghorn, J.R. & Iredale, T. 1924. Re-Discovery of the White-backed Wren, Maluras leuconotus. The Emu 24(1): 59-60 (comments on original type and selects Neotype); Warren, R.L.M. & Harrison, C.J.O. 1971. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2 Passerines. London : British Museum vi 628 pp. [298] (refutes Mathews (1912) claim that the type is in the BM(NH)).
• Malurus cyanotus Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 853 ♂, New South Wales.
• Malurus cyanotus exsul Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [359] [senior to simultaneously published Malurus leuconotus perplexus Mathews, 1912 by action of first reviser, Mathews, Systema Avium Australasianarum 2 (1930: 622)].
• Malurus leuconotus perplexus Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [359].
• Malurus cyanotus diamantina White, H.L. 1918. Description of a new sub-species of Malurus cyanotus. The Emu 18: 121 [Date published 1 Oct 1918] [121].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV HLW.2715 ♂, Qld: Diamantina River; NMV HLW.2714 ♂, Qld: Diamantina River.
• Hallornis leuconotus wongani Mathews, G.M. 1922. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby Vol. 10. [Date published 28 Sep 1922] [83].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Chenopodiaceous steppe, lignum or cane grass swamp, low sclerophyll heath, rocky hummock grassfield, samphire salt marsh, sand-plain hummock grassfield.

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