Manota kaspraki, Sevcik, Jan, Hippa, Heikki & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2014

Sevcik, Jan, Hippa, Heikki & Wahab, Rodzay Abdul, 2014, Diversity of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei, ZooKeys 428, pp. 57-77 : 60-62

Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Mycetophilidae

Manota kaspraki sp. n. Figs 1, 4

Description.

Male. Colour. Head pale brown, face and clypeus pale yellowish. Antenna brown, scapus and pedicellus paler. Mouthparts yellowish. Thorax pale brown, preepisternum 2 pale yellowish. Legs yellowish. Wing brownish, halter brownish with blackish knob. Abdomen pale brown, sternites paler than tergites. All setosity pale, yellowish or brownish. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4, Fig. 4A. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically expanded and curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.4 times longer than palpomere 4. Number of strong postocular setae 10-11. Thorax. Anepisternum setose, with 14-31 setae; anterior basalare setose, with 6-10 setae; preepisternum 2 setose, with 8-11 setae, laterotergite non-setose; episternum 3 setose, with 2-3 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R1 meeting C well on the basal half of the costal margin; the sclerotized part of M2 extending near to the level of the tip of R1; wing length 1.3-1.5 (1.1-1.4) mm. Hypopygium.Fig. 4 B–E: Sternite 9 about one third of ventral length of gonocoxa, with sharply delimited convex sides, posterior margin transverse with a wide submembranous notch, anterior margin shallowly incised, the setae similar to adjacent ventral setae of gonocoxa. Ventral mesial margin of gonocoxa simple, sigmoid. Parastylar lobe large, almost semicircular, with 5-7 setae scattered on the ventral surface. Paraapodemal lobe oval, at least partly covered by gonocoxa and parastylar lobe. The dorsal mesial margin of gonocoxa simple, convex, contiguous with the simple oblique posterior margin; posteriorly at the dorsal mesial margin there is a finger-like lobe apically bearing a stronger and a weaker seta; this lobe is very similar to the juxtagonostylar setae in appearance. Two juxtagonostylar setae, one an unmodified acute megaseta, the other a usual seta, both arising from a common basal body which is about one half of the length of the setae. Gonostylus elongate, slightly angled, with sub-basal lateral rounded lobe, the setosity confined to the lateral lobe and the apical part, some of the setae shorter but strong (spine-like megasetae). Aedeagus short, with strong lateral shoulders, the apex straight, not curved ventrad; on the ventral side of aedeagus (Fig. 4 C–E) there is a membranous lobe, which may belong to aedeagus. Hypoproct posteriorly extending near to the apex of gonostylus, unusually narrow; ventrally with one seta on each side (sternite 10), postero-dorsally with two strong setae on each side, the microtrichia unusually long. Cerci mesially fused.

Female unknown.

Discussion.

Manota kaspraki is not especially similar to any other described Manota . In the key to Oriental and Palaearctic Manota it runs to couplet 38 by the following characters: anepisternum setose, preepisternum 2 setose, laterotergite non-setose, anterior basalare setose, gonostylus unilobed and straight (not geniculate). Couplet 38 leads to a large number of species (18). The acute spine-like megasetae apically on the curiously hump-sided gonostylus and the narrow long microtrichose hypoproct distinguish Manota kaspraki from any hitherto described Manota . The inflated paraapodemal lobe is reminiscent of e.g. Manota vesicaria Hippa, 2009 from Thailand, but otherwise the species are not much similar.

Etymology.

The species is named after Mr. David Kaspřák, a PhD student at the University of Ostrava, who participated in both the expeditions to Brunei, helped with the installation of Malaise traps and with other field activities.

Types.

Holotype. Male, Brunei, Ulu Temburong N. P., Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre, 4°32'50"N, 115°09'28"E, 7-18.i.2014, primary lowland rainforest, Malaise trap 1 (night), D. Kaspřák & J. Ševčík leg. (in UBDC).

Paratypes. 2 males with same data as holotype except Malaise trap 1 (ODP) (in UBDC and UOSC); 2 males, the same data except sweeping February 2013 (in BMNH).