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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3185687" data-attributes="member: 113430">No. 23: ● renata … in the invalid "Apalis flavida renata" LAWSON 1968Also note the end of the <a href="http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/journal_archive/0012723X/1445.pdf" target="_blank">OD</a>, pp. 216-217, for "Apalis flavida renata" (that "Differs from A. f. florisuga" and "A.f.neglecta") … and the following  sentence:Which is a reference to this article (<a href="http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/journal_archive/0012723X/1323.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>), and in it; pp.97-102.Maybe of some help interpreting the name? I get the feeling it´s not eponym, but a bird/subspecies re-appearing (a year later), being re-born, by Lawson ex Clancey (as suggested as a possibility) ? … but that´s me, knowing very little of Latin and Greek ... or how scientific names are constructed. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />-</blockquote>