greatest collecting activity has been, and thus were not easily overlooked in routine 

 collections by early investigators. 



, Many descriptions of ageneiosids were not accompanied by explicit 



designations of type specimens, and in some cases there was no indication of how 

 many specimens provided the basis for a description. A survey of all major 

 institutions that were believed to possibly have specimens on which descriptions may 

 have been based revealed a surprising amount of type material. These types are 

 summarized in Table 1. Whenever possible, an attempt was made to personally 

 examine or obtain detailed information about all of the specimens identified as 

 probable types. In some cases, provisional identification of taxa was possible from 

 original Uterature sources. For some nominal species, no type material could be 

 located, and it is presumed that specimens on which these names are based were 

 either not saved or subsequently lost. 







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