Manota micula, Hippa, Heikki & Kurina, Olavi, 2013

Hippa, Heikki & Kurina, Olavi, 2013, New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 3686 (2), pp. 101-139 : 118-120

Manota micula sp. n.

Figs. 10 A–D

Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna pale brown. Clypeus yellow, mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellow, posteromedial part of scutum and scutellum brownish. Legs yellowish, apical fourth of femur 3 slightly infuscated. Wing pale brown; haltere yellow with dark brown knob. Abdominal tergites pale brown, seeming medially darker brown, sternites yellow. All setosity pale, yellowish or brownish. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4, Fig. 10 A. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.3 times longer than palpomere 4. Number of strong postocular setae 10. Thorax. Anepisternum setose, with 52 setae; anterior basalare non-setose; preepisternum 2 non-setose; laterotergite setose with 18 setae, episternum 3 setose, with 19 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R1 meeting C well on the basal half of the costal margin; the sclerotized part of M2 extending to the level of the tip of R1; wing length 1.9 mm. Hypopygium. Figs. 10 B–D: Sternite 9 with the lateral margin sharply delimited from gonocoxa, rounded, posterior margin concave, extending just over the middle of gonocoxa, anterior margin deeply incised, the setae similar to the adjacent ventral setae of gonocoxa. Ventral mesial margin of gonocoxa slightly angled; there is no posterolateral lobe extending on the ventral side; the ventral side setae of gonocoxa unmodified. Parastylar lobe large, subquadrangular, with 3 setae at posterior margin. No paraapodemal lobe observable. Dorsal mesial margin of gonocoxa simple. Number of juxtagonostylar megasetae two, the ventral one basally slightly expanded, the dorsal one with a leaf-like basal expansion, both of them arising from long, basally united basal bodies which are as long as the megasetae. Anteriorly from the juxtagonostylar megasetae there is a plate-like lobe bearing strong setae. At the juxtagonostylar megasetae there is a prominent strong seta arising from a short basal body. Posteriorly from the juxtagonostylar megasetae there is a long lobe apically bearing ca. 4 setae. Otherwise the dorsal setae of gonocoxa similar to those on the ventral side. Gonostylus flat, oval, with unmodified setae at margins, those at the lateral margin curved dorsad. Aedeagus with a broad apical part and strongly laterad curving apodemes, with subtriangular lateral lobes which may be connected to the apodemes even if it could not be observed in the slide, the apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to level of middle of gonostyli, the number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 15 on each half. Cerci mesially separate.

Female. Unknown.

Discussion. The non-setose anterior basalare, the setose laterotergite and the laterally delimited tergite 9 groups Manota micula together with M. anfracta , M. spinosa , M. bihamata , M. caribica , M. incisa Jaschhof & Hippa , M. penicillata and M. rara . Among these species only M. anfracta and M. micula are rather similar. Manota micula is distinguished from M. anfracta as follows: tergite 9 is largely membranous, without distinct lateral and posterior margins (in M. anfracta sclerotized, with distinct lateral and posterior margins) and gonostylus with numerous short setae at the mesial margin (in M. anfracta with only a single strong seta at the middle of the mesial margin).

Etymology. The name is Latin, micula , a small grain, referring to the small size of the fly.

Types. Holotype. Male, ECUADOR, Nape Prov., Yasuni NP, Yasuni Res. Station, 00°38’ S, 76°36’ W, Malaise trap, 3–20.xi.1998, leg. T. Pape & B. Viklund (on slide, in SMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 10. Manota micula sp. n. (holotype). A. Antennal flagellomere 4, lateral view. B. Hypopygium, dorsal view. C. Hypopygium, ventral view. D. Aedeagus and hypoproct, ventral view. Scale 0.1 mm.