Manota phyllochaeta Hippa, 2008

Material. MADACASCAR: male, Limite forêt / cultures, 3.03.1988, M. Donskoff, Piège de Malaise (slide mount- ed, MNHN); male, Manjakatompo, xii.1951, N. S. H. Krauss (slide mounted, MNHN); 3 males, Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana National Park, Talatakely, 800 m SW entrance; 21°15,48’S 47°25,27’E; 16–19.x. 2014, 610 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin’Hala; Malaise trap secondary rainforest (slide mounted, BMSA and IZBE) ; 4 males, Tamatave Torotorofotsy, Andasibe (Perinet), 22 km NW; 18°46,25’S 48°25,93’E, 23–25.x. 2014, 960 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin’Hala, Malaise trap primary rainforest (slide mounted, BMSA and IZBE) .

Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the holotype collected from northern Madagascar (Hippa 2008). The current records indicate to a wider distribution in the Island.