Mr. Miketta's Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo (1 Viewer)

Here´s another guy from the fringes of my MS, commemorated in the eponym ...

mikettae as in:
• the subspecies (Smaradolanius) Vireolanius leucotis mikettae HARTERT 1900 (here) as "Vireolanius mikettae" a k a "Miketta's Greenlet"

Named after the collector, Mr. R. Miketta, one of Mr. W. F. H. Rosenberg's correspondents.

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= Rudolf Miketta (no birth nor death years found), collector of various Naturalia (birds, mammals, butterflies etc.) in Ecuador (at least from 1899 until 1906), who collected the Type in July (dates differ, either on the 23rd or 28th) 1899, at (Hacienda) Paramba, Northern Ecuador.

This Mr. Miketta was (together with his friend George Fleming) in about the samt years (from 1896 onwards all the way til 1914), hired by the Natural History dealer William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868–1957)*, who supplied Rothschild and the Tring Museum with several shipments containing numerous unique or duplicate specimens. Also see (for example) the following links; here, here and here.

As a small clue for further searches (if anyone feel up to it) I noted a "Rudolf Miketta Sudhoff" (born 1865) who in 1919 married Maria Alcira Miketta Sudhoff née Alarcon (born 1887), together they had 5 children ... in Ecuador ... who might, could, possibly be an at least plausible candidate. If he is? If it´s him? That´s beyond my grasp.

For what its worth!

Björn

PS. In any case; not to confuse with several other, as well earlier, contemporary and later, Rudolf Miketta's "out there", most of them from Germany. If "our guy" was German as well? Or Bavarian alt. Lombardian/Venetian, North Italian? Who knows?
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*commemorated in several birds; here.

Calalp said:

As a small clue for further searches (if anyone feel up to it) I noted a "Rudolf Miketta Sudhoff" (born 1865) who in 1919 married Maria Alcira Miketta Sudhoff née Alarcon (born 1887), together they had 5 children ... in Ecuador ... who might, could, possibly be an at least plausible candidate. If he is? If its him? That´s beyond my grasp.

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Presumably the same person [here], albeit with a Hispanized forename (Rodolfo), and a wife née Maria Alcira Mejia (but whose mother was named Alarcon).
Born in Germany, died in Ecuador; no dates given here.
(As usual, Sudhoff might also be Rudolf/Rodolfo's mother's name, appended to his family name to fit Hispanic usage.)

The Eponym Dictionary of Birds claims:

Miketta's Greenlet Vireolanius leucotis mikettae Hartert., 1900 [Alt: Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo ssp.]
R. Miketta (DNF) was a collector in Ecuador (1898-1899) for the Tring Museum ans W. F. H. Rosenberg (q.v.), the natural history dealer, who at that time had his premises in Tring.

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Of course less than mentioned here. But life dates still not discovered.

Rudolfo Miketta Sudhoff