Manota mazumbaiensis Søli, 1993

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 : 432

Manota mazumbaiensis Søli, 1993

Figs 13 A–C

Material. GUINEA: 3 males, Monts Nimba, DL-HP-JYR, Source 1200 m, Piége Malaise , 27-iv–7-v-1993 (slide mounted, MNHN) ; male, Mont Nimba , 27.iii.1993, 1220 m, D. Lachaise leg. (slide mounted, MNHN) ; 2 males, Ft. Gal. du Zougué, 750m, 18–29.vi.1991, Piège de Malaise , Girard et Legrand col. (slide mounted, MNHN) ; male, same dada except 3–17.vi.1991 (slide mounted, MNHN) . GHANA: 10 males, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom , 31.10– 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (3 slide mounted, IZBE; 7 in alcohol, NHMO) ; 4 males, same data except 8- 15.11.1994 (3 slide mounted, NHMO; 1 in alcohol, IZBE) . UGANDA: male, Western region, Budongo Forest, N 01°43’04,2’’ E 031°32’46,2’’ ( Site 16), 9–14 July 2010, leg. G. Kvifte (Malaise trap) (slide mounted, NHMO) .

Remarks. In several studied specimens from Guinea and Ghana the preepisternum 2 has 2–4 setae, while other specimens have none (most common) or 1 seta. There are minute dissimilarities in the male terminalia, here illustrated by a Guinean specimen ( Figs 13 A–C), but we regard them to be within infraspecific variation, and may even be caused by slightly different positions of the hypopygia in the slide mounts. Variability in male terminalia of M. mazumbaiensis is depicted also by Hippa and Kurina (2012: fig 28). Manota mazumbaiensis is one of the most widely distributed Manota species in Africa. Having been described from Usambara Mountains in Tanzania ( Søli 1993), the species has subsequently been recorded from Uganda, D.R. Congo and Ghana ( Hippa & Kurina 2012, Kurina & Hippa 2014), and now also from Nimba Mountains in Guinea. However, such an extensive distribution, and variation in male terminalia may eventually point to a complex of species impossible to distinguish on the basis of the morphology only. Additional studies, including that of DNA sequences from freshly collected material are needed for further conclusions.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Manota mazumbaiensis Søli (from Guinea). A. Hypopygium, dorsal view. B. Hypopygium, ventral view. C. Hypoproct and aedeagus, ventral view. Scale 0.1 mm.