Description

COMMENTS: This specimen is generally accepted as a hybrid between Epimachus fastosus and Astrapia nigra (Stresemann, 1930: 13). It is illustrated by Hartert (1911 a: 604 and pl. 7), by Fuller (1995: pl. 7), and by Frith and Beehler (1998: pl. 14, no. 1). Although nothing is known about where this single specimen was collected, it was presumably from somewhere on the Vogelkop as its putative parents occur there.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Passeriformes

Family: Paradisaeidae

Genus: Epimachus

Species: Epimachus astrapioides Rothschild