Manota mabokeensis Matile, 1972

Hippa, Heikki, 2008, Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species, Zootaxa 1741, pp. 1-23 : 18

Manota mabokeensis Matile, 1972

( Figs 10 A, B)

New record. 3 males, UGANDA, Distr. Masindi, Budongo Forest, n. Sonso, 1o45’N 31o35’E (written as W on the label). 11–20.VII. 1995, Th. Wagner; Fogging sur Teclea nobilis no 17, swamp forest. In MNHN.

Remarks. M. mabokeensis was previously known only from the holotype from the Central African Republic. Matile (1972) did not study the characters of palp and the pleural chaetotaxy, and the hypopygium was described by means of a drawing in dorsal aspect. Based on the new Uganda material, I can give the following additional notes on the characters of M. mabokeensis: Palpomere 3 has an apicomesial thumb-like extension with 4–5 curved apically expanded sensilla and palpomere 4 has a parasegment. Anepisternum is setose, with 44–57 setae; anterior basalare is non-setose; preepisternum 2 is setose, with 15–20 setae; laterotergite is non-setose; and episternum 3 is setose, with 16–20 setae. The wing length is 1.6–2.1 mm. In the hypopygium ( Figs 10 A, B), sternite 9 is laterally separated from the gonocoxa and has the anterior margin deeply incised; the parastylar lobe is large, subquadrangular; the paraapodemal lobe is developed but concealed under the parastylar lobe in ventral view; the dorsal mesial margin of the gonocoxa is simple, evenly curving, with an aggregation of setae just on apical half, the setae being placed on the ventral side of the sclerite; there are two juxtagonostylar setae one of which is a rather unmodified normal seta, the other a flattened, long, S-shaped megaseta, both the setae arising from a rather long common basal body; on the dorsal side of the juxtagonostylar setae there is a seta arising from a conspicuous basal body; the gonostylus is rather complicated, with the apex formed by a narrow lobe-like projection bearing two stronger more ventral and two weaker more dorsal setae which differ from the other gonostylar setosity; subapically at the mesial margin of gonostylus there is a tuberculate aggregation of setae, and laterodorsally on the gonostylus there is a large semicircular lobe with conspicuous microtrichia; the tegmen is of the usual rather subtriangular type with distinct lateral shoulders; the hypoproct is rather small and has a mesial row of ca. 6 setae; the cerci are medially separate. In Matile’s (1972) drawing, the gonostylus appears rather different from Figs 10 A and B, so that what is the apex in my drawing is a lobe in the middle of the gonostylus in Matile’s drawing.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Manota mabokeensis Matile (Uganda).). A. Hypopygium, dorsal view. B. Hypopygium, ventral view. Scale 0.10 mm.