Manota licina, Hippa & Ševčík, 2013

Hippa, Heikki & Ševčík, Jan, 2013, Five new species and a new record of Manota (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Sulawesi, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 763-775 : 768-770

Manota licina sp. nov.

( Figs 3A–E )

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J, INDONESIA: SOUTH SULAWESI: ‘ Bulusaraung forêt secondaire altitude, au sol, Site 2-1, Grand Malaise 3, 18– 27.8.2007, INDO710 M1B’ ( MNHN).

Description of male. Colour. Head brown, face and clypeus paler brown.Antenna pale brown. Mouthparts yellowish. Thorax pale brown. Legs yellowish, coxa 3 infuscated at base. Wing pale brownish, halter pale brown with blackish knob. Abdomen brown, sternites very pale. All setosity pale, yellowish or brownish. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4, Fig. 3A . Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 5 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.4 times longer than palpomere 4. Number of strong postocular setae 11. Thorax. Anepisternum setose, with 62 setae; anterior basalare non-setose; preepisternum 2 setose, with 35 setae; laterotergite non-setose; episternum 3 setose, with at least 4 setae (the exact number not countable in the slide). 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 near to the level of the tip of R1; wing length 1.6 mm. Hypopygium ( Figs 3B–E ). Lateral margin of tergite 9 free from the gonocoxa, convex, posterior part submembranous, transverse, extending to the middle of gonocoxa, anterior margin deeply incised, the setae weaker than the ventral setae of gonocoxa except for one unusually strong and long seta on each half. Ventral mesial margin of gonocoxa simple, the ventral setae of gonocoxa unmodified. Parastylar lobe elongate subtriangular, with 3 setae at anterior narrower end. Paraapodemal lobe small, in Fig. 3B posteriorly from the parastylar lobe, marked also in Fig. 3C . Dorsal mesial margin of gonocoxa simple, posteriorly with a large thumb-like lobe with an aggregation of blunted megasetae. Gonocoxa with a large posterolateral lobe with a couple of strong setae basolaterally and a few smaller setae on apical part. Otherwise the dorsal setae of gonocoxa unmodified, similar to those on the ventral side. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, the dorsal one a stout apically curved megaseta arising from a basal body which is over half the length of megaseta, the ventral one of the juxtagonostylar setae an unmodified seta arising from the side of the basal body of the latter. No other setae on the dorsal side of gonocoxa that deviate from the general setosity. Gonostylus large, broad, with basomesial heel-like lobe, the ventral side setose, the dorsal side largely non-setose, the marginal setae of the heel-like lobe a little stronger than the others, on apical third of gonostylus there are 7 marginal or dorsal megasetae which are curved dorsad.Aedeagus short subtriangular, without distinct lateral shoulders, the apex curved ventrad, the curved part very long; in the single specimen it seems as the aedeagal apodemes have lost contact with the gonocoxal apodemes and the aedeagus may appear in an unnatural position. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to the middle length of gonostylus, number of its ventral setae (sternite 10) 5–6 on each half, these setae are very strong and are arranged in a row. Cerci mesially separate.

Differential diagnosis. Manota licina sp. nov. is similar to M. paulula sp. nov. For distinguishing characters, see under the latter. These two species are not especially similar to any other Manota and they are difficult to run in the key to Oriental and Palaearctic Manota (see HIPPA 2011). Among the numerous Australasian species with setose anepisternum, setose preepisternum 2, non-setose laterotergite, non-setose anterior basalare, with the ventral setae of the hypoproct arranged in 2 rows flanking the apex of aedeagus, the species are distinguished by their broad flattened gonostylus with a group of strong dorsally directed setae or megasetae at apex and by their juxtagonostylar megasetae consisting of a strong megaseta and a fine unmodified seta arising from the long basal body of the former. Manota licina sp. nov. and M. paulula sp. nov. are not quite different from M. gemella Hippa, 2007 from Amboine, Maluku Utara, Indonesia. Also it has similar juxtagonostylar setae, the ventral setae of the hypoproct are arranged almost in rows and the posterodorsal lobes of the gonocoxa are similar to M. paulula sp. nov. Apicomesially on the gonostylus, on the dorsal side, there is a row of curved setae, but they are weak and in this respect different from the strong setae in M. licina sp. nov. and M. paulula sp. nov. Manota gemella differs from the both others by having a small lobe near the middle of the mesial margin of gonostylus. All the three species have the setae on tergite 9 strikingly different is size. In the general appearance of their hypopygium all the discussed species may recall the Oceanian M. bicuspis Hippa, 2007 , M. evexa Hippa, 2007 , M. hamulata Colless, 1966 , M. orthacantha Hippa, 2007 , M. pacifica Edwards, 1928 , M. parilis Hippa, 2007 , M. pentacatha Hippa, 2007 , M. sicula Hippa, 2007 , as well as the Oriental M. acehensis Hippa & Ševčík, 2010 but differ by having the ventral setae of hypoproct in a row, not widely spread on the ventral surface.

Etymology. The name is a Latin adjective, licinus, -a, -um, meaning bent upwards, referring to the dorsally bent megasetae at the apex of the gonostylus.

Figures

Fig. 3. Manota licina sp. nov. (holotype).A – antennal flagellomere 4, lateral view. B – hypopygium, ventral view. C – hypopygium, dorsal view. D – hypoproct and aedeagus, ventral view. E – posterior part of gonocoxa, dorsal view. Scales 0.10 mm.