Manota crinita, Hippa, Heikki, 2008

Hippa, Heikki, 2008, New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from the Oriental region, Zootaxa 1723, pp. 1-41 : 16

Manota crinita sp. n.

( Figs 9 A, B, C)

Male. Colour. Head pale brown, frons and occiput darker brown, mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax pale brown, posterior medial part of scutum, scutellum and dorsal part of metanotum darker brown. Legs pale yellowish. Wing unicolorous yellowish-brown; haltere yellowish-brown with dark brown knob. Abdomen pale brown, becoming darker brown posteriad. All the setosity pale, yellowish or brownish, the thicker setae seeming darker than the finer setae and trichia. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4, Fig. 9 A. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial extension, with 3–4 apically expanded curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment. Number of postocular setae 10. Thorax. Anepisternum setose, with 54 setae, anterior basalare non-setose, preepisternum 2 setose, with 14 setae, laterotergite non-setose, episternum 3 setose, with 10 setae. Wing. Length 2.5 mm. Hypopygium, Figs 9 , B and C: Sternite 9 about one-half of the ventral length of gonocoxa, lateral margin sharply delimited, posterior margin broadly notched, anterior margin deeply incised, the setae similar to the ventral setae of gonocoxa, longer at posterior margin. Ventral mesial margin of gonocoxa simple. Parastylar lobe rather small, with 3–4 rather fine setae at mesial margin. Paraapodemal lobe distinct, well exposed in ventral view. Dorsal mesial margin of gonocoxa sigmoid, with subapical setose lobe. Gonocoxa with an apicolateral lobe which is dorsally setose apically and on mesial margin. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, one a curved seta, the other an equally long curved megaseta, both arising from a common basal body which is about half the length of the setae. Gonostylus simple, slightly curved, elongate-oval, the setae on ventral side rather short except for a mesial row of thick exceedingly long setae, the dorsal side largely nonsetose. Tegmen subtriangular with rather weak lateral shoulders. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to middle of gonostylus, with some 20 on each half, the setae mostly very long. Cerci medially separate.

Female unknown.

Discussion. Manota crinita resembles a number of those Oriental species which have a prominent apicolateral setose lobe on the gonocoxa, usually an oblique sickle-shaped parastylar lobe, setose preepisternum 2 and non-setose laterotergite, e.g. M. acutangula Hippa , M. calcarata Hippa , M. curvata Hippa , M. fera Hippa , M. ferrata Hippa , M. gemella Hippa , M. inflata sp. n., M. orientalis Senior-White , M. pectinata Hippa , M. procera Hippa , and M. transversa Hippa. M. crinita is not especially similar to any of these and is at once distinguished from all by the fringe of very long and strong setae at the ventral mesial margin of the gonostylus.

Types. Holotype. Male, MALAYSIA, Pahang, Cameron Highlands, Gunung Jasar, 1700 m, Malaise trap, 20–23.XI.1992, T. Pape (in SMNH).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Manota crinita sp. n. (holotype). A. Antennal flagellomere 4, lateral view. B. Hypopygium, dorsal view. C. Hypopygium, ventral view. Scale 0.10 mm.