Manota corcovado Jaschhof & Hippa 2005, sp. n.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
name: Hippa, Heikki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Manota
Manota corcovado

description: Manota corcovado sp. n. (Fig. 16)   
 Description. Small species.   
 Male. Head. Antenna with fourth flagellomere 2 times as long as wide. Maxillary palpus with third palpomere bearing 3 curved sensilla; fourth palpomere with a parasegment apically.   
 Thorax. Anterior basalare and laterotergite each bare. Episternum 3 with ventral portion setose. Wing. Length 1.6 mm. Membrane with a few setae along posterior margin. Sc bare. CuA2 fading away proximally.   
 Terminalia (Fig. 16). Sternite 9 with only a short portion of posterior margin distinct, i.e. two small lobes; margin situated beyond mid length of gonocoxites. Ventro­lateral lobes of gonocoxites densely setose; each lobe interiorly with 1 short seta on a separate rim and, more anteriorly, with an ovoid lobe bearing large microtrichia. Disto­lateral lobes of gonocoxites moderately long; each with very large setae directed posteriorly. Gonocoxites in position I with 1 moderately long, blunt megaseta; in position II with 3 short, blunt megasetae; in position III with 2 flat megasetae, each two­branched with one branch pointed, or bi­pointed, and the other branch rounded apically; in position IV with 3 twopointed megasetae; between positions III and IV with a slender lobe bearing 6–7 setae; dorsal gonocoxal margin unmodified. Gonostyli small, flat; each posteriorly with 1 strongly re­curved, blunt seta, anteriorly with 1 large plus 2 smaller setae apically. Parastylar lobes hidden behind gonostyli, each lobe with ventral portion stout and bare, and dorsal portion with a marginal comb of some 15 trichia (not illustrated). Tegmen tapering almost evenly to tip. Hypoproct rounded or blunt apically; with fine, short setulae laterally.   
 Diagnostic characters. Among the species with both anterior basalare and laterotergites bare, and terminalia with sternite 9 barely discernible, it has the disto­lateral lobes of the gonocoxites large, and the gonostyli small and flat. The array of megasetae dorsally on the gonocoxites is species specific, even though very similar to M. diversiseta. (See next species).   
 Etymology. From the type locality, Corcovado [National Park], which proved to be extremely rich in Manota species.   
 Types. Holotype. Male, Costa Rica, Puntarenas province, Corcovado National Park, 600 m S Cerro Rincón, 745 m, 23 April–24 June 2002, by Malaise trap, J. Azofeifa (INBio #70842). Paratypes. 8 males, same data as the holotype; 1 male, same data, but 800 m S Cerro Rincón (INBio sample #70843).   
 Other material studied. 1 male, same National Park as types, but Cerro Rincón, La Tigrilla, 7 Feb.–23 April 2002, J. Azofeifa (INBio sample #70848); 1 male, same National Park, but Cerro Mueller, 20 Dec. 2001 – 7 Feb. 2002, J. Azofeifa (INBio sample #67160).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias & Hippa, Heikki, 2005, The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1011 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1011.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5048990