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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3185715" data-attributes="member: 24811">No. 23:● renata … in the invalid "Apalis flavida renata" LAWSON 1968I see a possible explanation there, indeed, but not exactly this one.In 1962, Lawson had described Apalis flavida lucidigula [<a href="http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/journal_archive/0012723X/1561.pdf" target="_blank">OD</a>], with type locality in the eastern Transvaal lowveld. Clancey (1967) reviewed the subspecies limits in this species and invalidated Lawson's taxon, treating it as a synonym of A. f. neglecta, but simultaneously concluded that the neighbouring population of littoral Mozambique represented an unnamed valid race. Clancey then passed this on to Lawson, who described this littoral population as renata.Thus it was the second time that Lawson "gave birth" to a subspecies of Apalis flavida, following the "death" of the first one.</blockquote>