Manota fuscinula, Hippa & Søli & Kurina, 2019

Hippa, Heikki, Søli, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, Zootaxa 4652 (3), pp. 401-441 : 409-412

Manota fuscinula sp. n.

Figs 3 A–D

Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellowish to light brown. Legs yellowish to light brown. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter entirely brownish. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.6 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.5 times longer than palpomere 4. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 56 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite non-setose; preepisternum 2 with 20 setae; metepisternum with 11 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent.

Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 almost extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.6 mm. Hypopygium ( Figs 3 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, posterior margin straight, membranous, extending over middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with deep Vshaped incision medially, anterior 1/3 non-setose, setae on posterior 2/3 similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin simple, membranous. Parastylar lobe plate-like, rectangular, apical part with 3 setae. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, posteriorly forming well delimited setose lobe with dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa. Ventrally from dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa a finger-like lobe bearing a strong apical seta. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, one is a rather unmodified seta, the other is a flattened apically pointed megaseta and twice as long as the former, both arising from a common basal body which is about as long as the unmodified seta. Gonostylus elongate, rectangular, apical third slightly bent medially, lateral margin folded dorsally at basal half, setae similar to these on gonocoxa except 2–3 apical setae and 2 setae on lateral margin which are stronger, deviating from others. Aedeagus subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to base of gonostyli, ventral setae distributed only on apical fourth, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 10 on each half. Cerci medially separated, subapically constricted, with a row of apical setae only.

Female. Unknown.

Etymology. The name is Latin, fuscinula, ‘small trident’, referring to the three strong setae apically on the gonostylus; noun in apposition.

Comments. Manota fuscinula sp. n. belongs to a group of eight Afrotropical species as defined under M. limai . For further comments, see the latter species.

Types. Holotype. Male , GHANA, G. Accra region, Legon, Botanical Garden, 1– 3.12.1993, NUFU-ZMBN/ leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO).

Figures

FIGURE 3. Manota fuscinula sp. n. (holotype). A. Hypopygium, dorsal view. B. Hypopygium, ventral view. C. Left gonostylus, ventral view (focused from dorsal side). D. Hypoproct and aedeagus, ventral view (focused from dorsal side). Scale 0.1 mm.