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Cyclopodia albertisii Rondani, 1878 ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1878a: 150. TYPE LOCALITY: “ in insula Goram (Moluccis) [Goram Island (= Molucca Islands)]” (Maluku Islands). TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, lectotype (MSNG): Goram, 1872, d’Albertis / Typus / Nycteribia albertisii Rdn., ♂. PARALECTOTYPES NOT EXAMINED: 1 ♀ (MSNG): Goram, 1872, D’Albertis / Typus / Nycteribia albertisii Rdn., ♀ / albertisii Rndn. / Nycteribia albertisii Rndn., typus!; 1 specimen (sex not determinable) (MSNG): Goram, 1872, D’Albertis / C. albertisi [sic !] Rd., Paratypus; 1 ♂ (MZUF: Box 66): Nycteribia Latr. / albertisii Rnd. / 3379 / Goram, D’Albertis, 1872 / Paratype ♀, albertisii Rndn., T.C. Maa, [19]67; 1 ♂ (missing left fore-leg) (MZUF: Box 66): Nycteribia Latr. / albertisii Rnd. / 3379 / Goram, D’Albertis, 1872; 1 ♀ (missing left fore-, mid- and hind-legs) (MZUF: Box 66): Nycteribia Latr. / albertisii Rnd. / 3379 / Goram, D’Albertis, 1872 / Paratype ♀, albertisii Rndn., T.C. Maa, [19]67. CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Maa 1989b: 790). REMARKS: Rondani (1878a: 150) described Cyclopodia albertisii without specifying either the number or the sex of the specimens, he gave a single measurement of lengths and provided specific characters for the male, from material collected by L.M. D’Albertis. Guiglia (1957: 195) reported the male in the MSNG as “ holotype ” without knowing of an additional five specimens (all are paralectotypes), two specimens in the MSNG and three specimens in the MZUF, which brings the original syntype series to six specimens. In his original description Rondani did not explicitly refer to a single specimen therefore Guiglia’s “ holotype ” specimen must be considered as the lectotype (I.C.Z.N. 1999: Article 74.6). Maa (1971: 21) reported a type series without indicating the number of specimens and considered the MSNG male as the “type”. The additional MZUF specimen from “Borneo” is not included in the type series because it is not from the type locality., Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621, {"references":["Maa, T. C. (1989 b) Family Nycteribiidae. In: Evenhuis, N. L. (Ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu & E. J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 790 - 796.","Rondani, C. (1878 a) Muscaria exotica Musei Civici Januensis observata et distincta. Fragmentum IV. Hippoboscita exotica non vel minus cognita. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 12, 150 - 169.","Guiglia, D. (1957) I tipi di ditteri di Camillo Rondani e di altri autori appartenenti alle collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genov a, 69, 193 - 207.","Maa, T. C. (1971) Studies in batflies (Diptera: Streblidae, Nycteribiidae). Revision of the Australian batflies. Pacific Insects Monographs, 28, 1 - 118."]}

Our survey in Mount Makiling Forest Reserve, Luzon Island, Philippines from April to May 2011 revealed new host records of bat fly species (Diptera: Nycteribiidae), including: Eucampsipoda philippinensis Ferris, Cyclopodia garrula Maa, C. horsfieldi de Mejeire, Phthiridium brachyacantha (Theodor) and Penicillidia acuminata Theodor. We also report C. garrula as a new record for Luzon Island. A checklist of the species known from the Philippines with the known distribution and bat host species was also provided.

Background: We present information on Nycteribiidae flies parasitizing the bat families Pteropodidae, Miniopteridae and Vespertilionidae from the Malagasy Region, contributing insight into their diversity and host preference.Results: Our phylogenetic analysis identified nine clusters of nycteribiid bat flies on Madagascar and the neighbouring Comoros Archipelago. Bat flies sampled from frugivorous bats of the family Pteropodidae are monoxenous: Eucampsipoda madagascariensis, E. theodori and Cyclopodia dubia appear wholly restricted to Rousettus madagascariensis, R. obliviosus and Eidolon dupreanum, respectively. Two different host preference patterns occurred in nycteribiids infecting insectivorous bats. Flies parasitizing bats of the genera Miniopterus (Miniopteridae) and Myotis (Vespertilionidae), namely Penicillidia leptothrinax, Penicillidia sp. and Nycteribia stylidiopsis, are polyxenous and showed little host preference, while those parasitizing the genera Pipistrellus and Scotophilus (both Vespertilionidae) and referable to Basilia spp., are monoxenous. Lastly, the inferred Bayesian phylogeny revealed that the genus Basilia, as currently configured, is paraphyletic.Conclusion: This study provides new information on the differentiation of nycteribiid taxa, including undescribed species. Host preference is either strict as exemplified by flies parasitizing fruit bats, or more relaxed as found on some insectivorous bat species, possibly because of roost site sharing. Detailed taxonomic work is needed to address three undescribed nycteribiid taxa found on Pipistrellus and Scotophilus, tentatively allocated to the genus Basilia, but possibly warranting different generic allocation.

In 1835 Westwood described Nycteribia sykesii and N. hopei, and mentioned the possibility of both being male and female of the same species. He also described N. dubia. In 1860 Bigot described N. oxycephala. In 1863 Kolenati created the genus Cyclopodia for N. sykesii and N. hopei, but did not include N. dubia in the new genus. Kolenati did not see any specimens, but based his diagnosis solely on Westwood's figures and very short descriptions. In 1878 Rondani described C. albertisi and N. ferrarii. In 1884 Karsch described C. greeffi and in 1889 de Meijere described C. horsfieldi. All these descriptions, except that of C. horsfieldi, are incomplete, and the first paper dealing in detail with ten species, of which four were new, is Speiser's monograph of 1901. Since then only three species have been described (C. inclita Falcoz, 1927; C. pembertoni Scott, 1932; and C. tenuis Schuurmans Stekhoven & Hardenberg, 1938). Speiser re-defined the genus. He mentioned the pigmented eyes with two ocelli, the broad antennae, the long anterior coxae and the three rings on the tibiae.