Ceratopogon agas Rondani, 1875

Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, Zootaxa 4989 (1), pp. 1-438 : 83

Ceratopogon agas Rondani, 1875

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1875c: 462.

TYPE LOCALITY: “ Insula Bonae Fortunae (Borneo) , Provincia Sarawak [ Bona Fortuna Island , Sarawak Province, Borneo]” ( Rondani 1875c: 421) .

TYPE MATERIAL: 10 ♀♀, syntypes (glued in pairs to five separate cardboard stages) ( MZUF: Box 71): Ceratopogon agas n., Borneo / Sarawak / [no identification number]; 8 ♀♀, syntypes (glued singly to cardboard stages pinned together) ( MSNG): Sarawak / Typus / agas (nome malese), ricoprivano la testa dei tacchini [(a Malaysian name), they covered the heads of turkeys] / agas Rond. / Ceratopogon agas , n° 79; 18 ♀♀, syntypes (dirty, glued singly to cardboard stages on 11 pins) ( MSNG): Ceratopogon agas Rond. , vid. Rondani; 1 ♀, syntype ( MSNG): agas , ricoprivano la testa dei tacchini. Nota di O. Beccari, 5.[18]67 [they covered the heads of turkeys. Note by O. Beccari, 5.67], Ceratopogon agas Rond. , vid. Rondani.

CURRENT STATUS: valid species, as Forcipomyia agas ( Wirth 1973: 354) ; valid species, as Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea) agas ( Borkent 2016: 43, Borkent & Dominiak 2020: 83).

REMARKS: Rondani (1875c: 462) described Ceratopogon agas from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens but surely from more than one: “ exemplaria plura a me observata [I observed more than one specimen]”, from material collected by G. Doria and O. Beccari. Guiglia (1957: 194) reported the “type” and many “cotypes” in the MSNG while Raineri & Rey (1996: 34) reported one female type and just one cotype. None of these authors unambiguously identified a single specimen from the type series to serve as the name-bearing type and therefore did not publish a lectotype designation (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.5). We found 37 syntypes in this study.