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

[Björn Bergenholtz]

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.

= 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.

 

[l_raty]

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.

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.)

 

[Taphrospilus]

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.

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

 

[PScofield]

Rudolfo Miketta Sudhoff

Birth:	Apr 30 1867 - Breslau, Schlesien, Preußen, Alemania
Death:	Feb 24 1960 - Bahía de Caráquez, Manabí, Ecuador
Wife:	Maria Alcira Miketta Sudhoff (born Mejia Alarcon)

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Nothing much, just a sort of confirmation ...

In the (Non-Bird) Paper; Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador, by Carolina Reyes-Puig, et al. (October 2020), we find the following part [which incl. a part about our guy" – all in line with Paul's Rudolf(o) Miketta (in post #4) ]:

Remarks concerning Ecuadorian specimens
The unique specimen of Oedipina ecuatoriana from Paramba was part of a collection sold to the British Museum (Natural History) (= The Natural History Museum, London) by the naturalist, collector and natural history dealer W. F. H. Rosenberg (The Natural History Museum archives; DF Cisneros-Heredia, pers. obs., 2013). William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (born 1868, died 1957) collected in western Ecuador from November 1896 to September 1897, but his colleagues Georg Flemming and Rudolf Miketta kept sending him collections after his departure—at least until 1903 (Jobling, 2019; Lemaire & Venedictoff, 1989; Rosenberg, 1898; Sharpe, 1906). Either Flemming or Miketta most probably collected the specimen of O. ecuatoriana. Little information is available about these two collectors: Georg Flemming (birth and death dates unknown) was probably related (son?) to Bernhard (Bernardo) Flemming, a German engineer who was hired at different times along the late 1800s for the construction of the road between Ibarra and El Pailón (San Lorenzo del Pailón), passing through Paramba (Flores, 1892; Rueda Novoa, 2010), and who in 1891 published the map ‘‘Mapa general del Ecuador por Bernardo Flemming’’, where Paramba is shown (Flemming, 1891). Georg Flemming lived in (or visited) Paramba at least until 1907, based on a letter sent to the German journal for bookbinders ‘‘Archiv für Buchbinderei’’ dated ‘‘Paramba, 6 Februar 1907’’ (Flemming, 1907). Rudolf Miketta (born 1867; died unknown) lived in Ecuador and apparently lived and died in the town of Bahía de Caraquez (Ceriola, 1913).

[from page 22 (of 35), here]​

Based on what I cannot tell (the reference "Ceriola, 1913"*, unseen by me), ... but to me it looks like the Herpetological community know more about Mr Miketta than we do (or used to do).

Either way, enjoy!

Björn

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*Ceriola J. B. 1913. Manabói a la vista. Guayaquil: Talleres Gráficos de F. E. Rodenas.

 

[Taphrospilus]

It might be more Information in Contribución para el estudio de la sociedad colonial de Guayaquil . See too FamilySearch.org