Quote Originally Posted by Painted Jezebel View Post
Is this now fully accepted? I knew that there was great debate about this, but was not aware it had been resolved. C&P4 mentions this and intimates that it could be a separate sp. but retained it as a ssp. of I. pyrene.
In Malayan Nature Journal vol 58 Oct. 2006.
Eliot's explanation is that there are no intermediates, given some altitudinal overlap is inevitable, and there are no other known subspecies of I. pyrene in which the male is white.
Taxon alticola is endemic to peninsular Malaysia.

TL Seow