Subspecies Sphecotheres vieilloti vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

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• Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [215].
• Sphecotheres australis Gould, J. 1848. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 cii 13 pp., 36 pls. [pl. 15].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP 3287 adult ♂ (another syntype (female) unlocated in ANSP Meyer de Schauensee (1957); Stone & Mathews mention a male 3288), New South Wales.

  Secondary source:

   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] [178] (mention of 3288 as the lectotype; this is apparently unlocated; possibly a female rather than a male as stated); Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 109: 123-246 [194] (missing syntype).
• Sphecotheres canicollis Swainson, W. 1837. Animals in Menageries. In, Lardner, D. (ed.). The Cabinet Cyclopaedia. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman & John Taylor Vol. 6(98) 373 pp. [publication dated 13 Jan. 1838] [320].
• Sphecotheres virescens Jardine, W. & Selby, P.J. 1827. Illustrations of Ornithology. Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars Series Vol. 2. [pl. 79] [junior primary homonym of Sphecotheres virescens Vieillot, 1823, presumed unjustified emendation of Specotera (= Sphecotheres) viridis Vieillot, 1816].
• Sphecotheres grisea Lesson, 1830.
• Sphecotheres asturinus Gray, G.R. 1869. Hand-list of Genera and Species of Birds, Distinguishing those Contained in the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 1 xx 404 pp. [291] [nom. nud.].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Broadleaf thicket/shrubland, human habitation, paperbark woodland, subtropical rainforest, temperate rainforest, tropical eucalypt, wet sclerophyll forest.

 

History of changes

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		01-Sep-2014	MODIFIED