Pomarea maupitiensis (Maupiti Monarch)

[Melanie]

Jul 27, 2017 11:09:01 GMT alexanderlang said:

This species and many other Polynesian monarchs (Chasiempis, Clytorhynchus, Mayrornis, Pomarea) should now be merged in the genus Monarcha.

source:

www.researchgate.net/publication/269175378_Phylogeny_of_the_monarch_flycatchers_reveals_extensive_paraphyly_and_novel_relationships_within_a_major_Australo-Pacific_radiation

Therefor that this paper is from 2015, the genera are still present. See Collar et al 2016 or Cibois & Thibault 2017.

[Sebbe]

Contemporary extinction and population declines of the monarchs (Pomarea spp.) in French Polynesia, South Pacific
www.academia.edu/1450455/Contemporary_extinctions_and_population_declines_of_the_monarchs_Pomarea_spp._in_French_Polynesia_South_Pacific

[Melanie]

Clarifying the nomenclature of Pomarea species (Monarchidae) from the Society Islands
Edward C. Dickinson, Michael Lee, Alice Cibois, Patrick Boussès, Jérôme Fuchs

Abstract

We re-examine evidence from the voyage of the corvette La Coquille in respect of the Pomarea monarch flycatchers from Tahiti and Maupiti, and conclude that Pomarea maupitiensis Garnot, 1829, should be recognised as a distinct but extinct species for which we designate a lectotype, necessarily represented by the image in a colour plate.

Open access here:

bioone.org/journals/Bulletin-of-the-British-Ornithologists-Club/volume-139/issue-1/bboc.v139i1.2019.a5/Clarifying-the-nomenclature-of-Pomarea-species-Monarchidae-from-the-Society/10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a5.full

[Melanie]

Formerly assigned the scientific name P. pomarea which is now treated as as junior synonym of P. nigra as the all black specimen in the originally composite type series upon which P. pomarea was based can be attributed to Tahiti, not Maupiti. P. maupitiensis is based on the pied male of the original composite series which was collected on Maupiti and which is designated as the lectotype for that sexually dichromic species. Dickinson et al 2019.

www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/taxonomy/

[alexanderlang]

Mar 26, 2019 8:42:10 GMT Melanie said:

Formerly assigned the scientific name P. pomarea which is now treated as as junior synonym of P. nigra as the all black specimen in the originally composite type series upon which P. pomarea was based can be attributed to Tahiti, not Maupiti. P. maupitiensis is based on the pied male of the original composite series which was collected on Maupiti and which is designated as the lectotype for that sexually dichromic species. Dickinson et al 2019.

www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/taxonomy/

I still think that the black-and-white bird is the female ... and I always will! 

[Melanie]

Mar 29, 2019 7:47:32 GMT alexanderlang said:

Mar 26, 2019 8:42:10 GMT Melanie said:

Formerly assigned the scientific name P. pomarea which is now treated as as junior synonym of P. nigra as the all black specimen in the originally composite type series upon which P. pomarea was based can be attributed to Tahiti, not Maupiti. P. maupitiensis is based on the pied male of the original composite series which was collected on Maupiti and which is designated as the lectotype for that sexually dichromic species. Dickinson et al 2019.

www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/taxonomy/

I still think that the black-and-white bird is the female ... and I always will! 

The brown bird is the female and the black bird is the male of Pomarea nigra. The black-and-white bird is the lost type of P. maupitiensis and also a male. See also Garnots OD on Muscicapa maupitiensis (in French, p 593).

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38661530#page/242/mode/1up