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Prompted by field observations in 2001 in the Utcubamba Valley, Peru, a study was undertaken of 130 specimens in the Aratinga mitrata complex. As a result, the traditional arrangement of Aratinga mitrata (A. m. mitrata Tschudi 1844 and A. m. alticola Chapman 1921) as one species, is replaced with a new classification where Aratinga mitrata is divided into five taxa, A. m. mitrata Tschudi 1844, Aratinga mitrata chlorogenys ssp. nov and Aratinga mitrata tucumana ssp. nov, Aratinga hockingi sp. nov, and A. alticola Chapman 1921.
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I would like to thank the curators and employees of the following collections, who enabled me to investigate the extant material and provided support: American Museum of Natural History (P. Sweet); Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (J. Bates, T. Schulenberg); The Natural History Museum, Tring (R. Prys-Jones); Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (L. Joseph); Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich (J.H. Reicholf); Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (S. Frahnert); Musée d’Histoire Naturelle Neuchâtel (J.-P. Hänni); Forschungsinstitut and Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt (G. Mayr) and Museo de Historia Natural “Javier Prado” de la UNMSM, Lima (I. Franke). I would also like to thank P. Hocking, A.J. Pittman, N. Collar, G. Mayr, R. Niemann, C. König, M. Desfayes and L. Lepperhoff for their assistance and helpful information. I am extremely grateful to J. Fjeldså, N. Collar, F. Steinheimer and R. Schodde for their comments and assistance with the manuscript. My special thanks to A.J. Pittman who also provided the English text for my German original.
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Arndt, T. A revision of the Aratinga mitrata complex, with the description of one new species, two new subspecies and species-level status of Aratinga alticola . J Ornithol 147, 73–86 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-005-0007-7
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