Notes on Manota coxata (Enderlein) and M. palpalis Lane

Prior to the study of Manota in Costa Rica (Jaschhof & Hippa 2005), three species were described from the Neotropical region. Jaschhof & Hippa (2005) studied the type material of M. defecta described from the Caribbean Islands (Williston 1896) but not that of the two other species, viz. M. coxata and M. palpalis .

Manota coxata (as Aphanizophleps coxata) was described from the holotype male from Santa Catharina, Brazil (Enderlein 1911) and has not been reported since. The detailed description, including a drawing of wing, does not give any characters of the hypopygium which would be necessary for identification of the species. We have studied the holotype (in MIZ) that is in a relatively poor condition (see Fig. 2). It is pinned through thorax which bears the head with incomplete antennae and palpi, all coxae and the complete left foreleg. One wing is mounted separately between two cover slips and is stored in a small board box next to the specimen. The abdomen is mounted, probably in Canada balsam, on a piece of celluloid attached to the pin with the other dry parts of the specimen but the hypopygium is lacking. The hypopygium has obviously been slide-mounted separately but has lost the contact with the other parts of the specimen. Therefore, the identity of M. coxata remains currently open.

Manota palpalis was described from the holotype male from Estado de Goiás, Corumbá, Brazil (Lane 1948) and has not reported since. The description includes a sufficiently detailed drawing of male hypopygium (cf. Lane 1948: fig. 4) to allow the identification of the species when at hand. The row of six hook-like structures at the posterodorsal margin of the gonocoxa, probably megasetae, are quite unlike what we have seen in any of the species we studied and we have regarded it unnecessary to study the type in the present context.