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Manota digitata Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 23.xi–7.xii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species was recently described from the Iquitos area in Peru (Hippa et al. 2017) and had not been recorded since.

Manota perplexa Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2017 Material studied. 1 male, NICARAGUA, Rio San Juan, Bartola, 10°58’36’’N 84°20’14’’W, Malaise trap, 3– 8.vi.2008, leg. O. Kurina (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species was recently described from Costa Rica (Kurina et al. 2017) and had not been recorded since., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2017) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Colombia, Brazilian Amazonia, and Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 668, 83 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 668.11350"]}

Manota vladi sp. n. Figs 1 A–B, 6 A–F urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: AF9A3FEF-1523-4548-85EA-E2ED99EFAF4A Male. Colour. Head brown, face yellow. Scape, pedicel and first three segments of flagellum yellowish, rest of flagellar segments light brown. Clypeus, mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellow to light brown, with laterotergite and mediotergite somewhat darker, and preepisternum 2, proepisternum and antepronotum pale yellow. Legs yellowish, basal fourth of mid and hind femora brownish, tarsi appear brown due to dense trichia. Wing with light brownish tinge due to microtrichia; halter yellowish with dark brown knob. Abdomen brown, sternites and lateral tergites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia appear darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.9 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.4 times longer than palpomere 4. 10–11 strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 29–41 setae; anterior basalare non-setose, laterotergite with 27–29 setae, preepisternum 2 with 7–11 setae; metepisternum with 2–3 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 2.0– 2.1 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 1 B, 6 A–F). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, not extending to middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, posterior margin with wide V-shaped concavity, anterior margin with very deep U-shaped wide incision dividing sternite almost in half, lateroposterior margin of both halves with 3–5 setae, similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa straight, with marginal row of medially directed setae, the posterior-most seta slightly stronger. Parastylar lobe small, conical, covered by ventral medial margin of gonocoxa, with an apical strong and 3–4 more basal weaker setae. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, slightly bulging medially, posteriorly at the medial margin, on more ventral level, with (1) a more anterior plate-like submembranous rounded lobe bearing 7–10 short and simple, marginal and submarginal setae, and (2) a more posterior, subtriangular, dorsally setose lobe with a dense aggregation of apical setae. Two juxtagonostylar seta present: ventral one a simple unmodified megaseta, shorter than the dorsal; dorsal one flattened and obvolute megaseta bearing a whiplike apical branch, both megasetae arising from basally fused short basal bodies. Gonostylus club-shaped, more than half length of gonocoxa, ventrally widely setose, dorsally with 4–5 setae subapically, apical margin with 3 longer setae, posteromedial margin somewhat drawn out medially, bearing a dense aggregation of about 10 long medially directed and curved setae deviating from other setae of the gonostylus. Aedeagus elongated subtriangle, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct large, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 20 on each half, anteroventrally with two long setae deviating from other setosity of hypoproct. Cerci medially fused, setae arranged along posterior margin. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named in honour of Dr. Vladimir (Vlad) Blagoderov (NMS, Edinburgh, UK), the collector of the type material and an active researcher of recent and fossil fungus gnats. Comments. In the key to Neotropical Manota by Kurina et al. (2018), M. vladi sp. n. runs to couplet 9 (setose laterotergite, non-setose anterior basalare and gonocoxa without a posterolateral lobe) and groups together with five species, viz. M. clava Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2017 (Colombia), M. mexicapan Hippa & Huerta, 2009 (Mexico), M. nubicola Hippa & Huerta, 2009 (Mexico), M. planistylus Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (Costa Rica) and M. rectolobata Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 (Costa Rica). Manota vladi differs from them as well as all other Neotropical species in the large, club-shaped gonostylus with aggregation of long and twisted setae at the posteromedial corner. In having medially fused cerci, the new species resembles three other Neotropical species, viz. M. appendiculata Hippa & Kurina, 2013, M. inermis Hippa & Kurina, 2013 and M. quantilla Hippa & Kurina, 2013. Otherwise the species is significantly different. Types. Holotype. Male, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Amando Bermudez NP, 19.0638N 70.8759W (+/- 5m), 1180 masl., Malaise trap, 14–20.iv.2019, leg V. Blagoderov (slide mounted, NMS). Paratypes. 2 males, same as holotype (slide mounted, NMS and IZBE)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on pages 94-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1","Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2017) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Colombia, Brazilian Amazonia, and Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 668, 83 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 668.11350","Hippa, H. & Huerta, H. (2009) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Mexico. Zootaxa, 2020 (1), 51 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2020.1.3","Jaschhof, M. & Hippa, H. (2005) The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa, 1011 (1), 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1011.1.1","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2013) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3686 (2), 101 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3686.2.1"]}

Manota subaristata Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2017 Material studied. 3 males, ECUADOR, Napo prov., Yanayacu Biological Station, 00°35’44.3’’S 77°53’38.6’’W, alt 2234 m., double Malaise trap, 29.viii–3.ix.2019, leg. X. Mengual & T. Salden (on slides, 1 in INABIO, 1 in ZFMK, 1 in IZBE). Remarks. This species was described from Colombia (Kurina et al. 2017) and subsequently recorded quite widely also from Brazil: States of Paraná, São Paulo and Sergipe (Kurina et al. 2018).

Manota truuverki sp. n. Figs 5 A–C urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 4EF6E9AA-9430-4AFD-9218-0189761EB261 Male. Colour. Head light brown, face somewhat paler. Scape, pedicel and first segment of flagellum yellowish, rest of flagellar segments brown. Clypeus, mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown, with scutum laterally yellowish. Legs yellowish, apical third of hind femur brownish, tarsi appear brown due to dense trichia. Wing with light brownish tinge due to microtrichia; halter yellowish, knob brown. Abdomen brown, sternites and lateral tergites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia appear darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.8 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.2–1.3 times longer than palpomere 4. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 32–37 setae; anterior basalare non-setose, laterotergite with 16–17 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 2–6 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.5–1.7 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 5 A–C). Anterior half of sternite 9 fused with gonocoxa, posterior half free from gonocoxa, extending over the middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, posterior margin rounded with wide shallow apical concavity, anterior margin with V-shaped incision, posterior half with setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa straight. Parastylar lobe small, extending over ventral medial margin of gonocoxa, with 2 apical setae. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, slightly bulging medially, at posterior third with a membranous lobe on more ventral level bearing 4–5 short, medially directed, slender setae and 1–2 somewhat stronger setae at more posterior position. Two juxtagonostylar setae present: dorsal one a flattened, spathulate megaseta with a subapical whiplike dorsal branch; the ventral one a simple wavy megaseta, longer than dorsal one, both megasetae arising from a common basal body about as long as the ventral megaseta. Gonostylus subovate, about 1.4 times as long as wide, non-setose except one strong and one weaker setae at medial margin and 3 short, stout and curved setae at apical margin. Aedeagus elongated subtriangle, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct large, extending posteriorly near to apex of gonostylus, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 20 on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae scattered over the surface. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named in recognition of Andro Truuverk, an entomologist at Zoological Museum, University of Tartu, who initiated a year-long Malaise trapping program in the Kaw Mountains of French Guiana. The collecting yielded more than a hundred specimens of Manota included in the current paper. Comments. In the key to Neotropical Manota by Kurina et al. (2018), the new species runs to couplet 11 because of setose laterotergite, non-setose anterior basalare and gonocoxa with posterolateral lobe about half length of more basal part of gonocoxa. Twelve species are included in this couplet but M. truuverki sp. n. differs in details of the hypopygium from all of them. With respect to the gonostylus and the general outline of dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa, the new species is more similar to M. digitata Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017, but has a small parastylar lobe (large and parallel with ventral medial margin of gonocoxa in M. digitata) and sternite 9 is posteriorly rounded with a shallow apical excavation (with a wide and deep posterior concavity in M. digitata). Based on the shape of the gonostylus, shape of the sternite 9 and general outline of the dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa, M. truuverki is similar also to M. anfracta Hippa & Kurina, 2013 (couplet 26 in the key by Kurina et al. 2018). However, M. truuverki has the posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa straight, about half length of the more anterior part of the gonocoxa (short and bent medially in M. anfracta; cf. Hippa & Kurina (2013): figs 3 A–F; Hippa et al. (2017): figs 20 A–C), parastylar lobe small and simple (large and complex in M. anfracta) and the ventral juxtagonostylar megaseta simple (both juxtagonostylar megasetae modified, with flattened and expanded basal parts in M. anfracta). Types. Holotype. Male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 27.vii–10.viii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Paratype. 1 male, same as holotype except 26.i–12.ii.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (on slide, IZBE)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on pages 92-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1","Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2013) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3686 (2), 101 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3686.2.1"]}

Manota acutistylus Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 Material studied. 1 male, DOMINICA: St Paul Parish Ponte Casse, D-smart Farm, 15°22’23.4’’N 61°20’58.7’’W, alt 512m, Malaise trap, 13–20.vi.2016, BMNH(E)2016-174 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (on slide, NHM); 5 males, DOMINICA: St David Parish 3- Rivers Ecolodge, 15°22’19.2’’N 61°16’32’’W, alt 91.9m, Malaise trap, 25–30.vi.2017, BMNH(E)2017-86 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (1 on slide, 4 in alcohol, NHM); 8 males, DOMINICA: St David Parish 3- Rivers Ecolodge, 15°22’17.9’’N 61°16’28.6’’W, alt 87m, Malaise trap, 25–30.vi.2017, BMNH(E)2017-86 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (1 on slide, 7 in alcohol, NHM); 3 males, DOMINICA: St David Parish 3- Rivers Ecolodge, 15°22’25.3’’N 61°16’34.9’’W, alt 122.8m, Malaise trap, 12– 16.vi.2017, BMNH(E)2017-86 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (3 in alcohol, NHM); 3 males, DOMINICA: St David Parish 3- Rivers Ecolodge, 15°22’24.7’’N 61°16’45.5’’W, alt 176.7m, Malaise trap, 21–24.vi.2017, BMNH(E)2017-86 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (3 in alcohol, NHM); 1 males, DOMINICA: St Peters Parish, Syndicate, 15°31’20.9’’N 61°24’56.6’’W, alt 587.9m, Malaise trap, 2–11.vii.2018, BMNH(E)2018-125 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (in alcohol, NHM). Remarks. Manota acutistylus is a widely distributed species within the Neotropical region. It was earlier known from Costa Rica (Jaschhof & Hippa 2005), Ecuador, French Guiana (Hippa & Kurina 2013) and Peru (Hippa et al. 2017)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Jaschhof, M. & Hippa, H. (2005) The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa, 1011 (1), 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1011.1.1","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2013) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3686 (2), 101 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3686.2.1","Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1"]}

Manota pseudocavata sp. n. Figs 4 A–D urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 63CCD195-A89C-4B8B-8CA4-791D63095236 Male. Colour. Head light brown, face somewhat paler. Scape, pedicel yellowish, flagellar segments light brown. Clypeus, mouthparts pale yellow. Thorax light brown, with scutum anteriorly and laterally, and preepisternum 2 yellowish. Legs yellowish, apical third of hind femur brownish, tarsi appear brown due to dense trichia. Wing with light brownish tinge due to microtrichia; halter yellowish, knob brown. Abdomen brown, sternites and lateral tergites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia appear darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 2 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.1–1.2 times longer than palpomere 4. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 30–37 setae; anterior basalare non-setose, laterotergite with 16–22 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 12–13 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.6–1.7 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 4 A–D). Sternite 9 large, laterally free from gonocoxa, extending over the middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, posterior margin very broadly and deeply concave, anterior margin broadly concave, setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Posterodorsally from sternite 9 a small angular or conical membranous microtrichose lobe. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa concave. Parastylar lobe small, fused with posterior part of ventral medial margin of gonocoxa, bearing two setae. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Lateral part of gonocoxa drawn into a posterolateral lobe about one third of length of basal part of gonocoxa. Setae on posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa and on dorsal side of gonocoxa similar to those on ventral side. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, forming a continuous curved margin with posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa. Ventrally from dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa and covered by it a platelike lobe with aggregation of ca. 10 setae and a flame-shaped megaseta. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, arising from separate basal bodies: ventral one apically whip-like flattened megaseta; dorsal one flattened, well dilated megaseta with subapical whip-like branch. Posteriorly from juxtagonostylar megasetae a stronger seta deviating from other setosity. Gonostylus flat, subquadrangular, with 5–6 setae at apex. Aedeagus subtriangular, with weak lateral shoulders, with strongly laterad curved apodemes, apex straight, not curved ventrad. Hypoproct posteriorly rounded, extending to base of juxtagonostylar setae, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) 10–15 on each half. Cerci medially separate, apically slightly widening and blunt, setae scattered over the surface, apical 5–6 setae longer than the rest of cercal setae. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The specific epithet is Latin, formed by adding the prefix pseudo- [false] to the specific epithet of M. cavata, as a reference to the similarity between the two species. Comments. Manota pseudocavata sp. n. runs to couplet 26 (to M. caribica Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005) in the key to Neotropical Manota by Kurina et al. (2018) because the laterotergite is setose, anterior basalare is non-setose, posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa is large but shorter than half length of the more basal part of gonocoxa, sternite 9 is posteriorly concave, not extending to the base of gonostylus and is laterally free from gonocoxa and gonostylus is unilobed. However, the new species is much more similar to M. cavata Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2018, sharing also the unusual shape of sternite 9 (cf. Kurina et al. 2018: fig. 5B). It differs from M. cavata by: (1) posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa about one third of length of basal part of gonocoxa (about half in M. cavata), (2) absence of plate-like lobe posteroventrally from dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa (large submembranous plate-like lobe in M. cavata), (3) dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa forming a continuous margin with posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa (dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa posteriorly separated by step from posterolateral lobe in M. cavata), (4) platelike lobe ventrally from dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa with aggregation of setae and a flame-shaped megaseta (only with aggregation of setae in M. cavata), and (5) dorsal juxtagonostylar megaseta well dilated, with subapical whip-like ventral branch (bifurcated with one branch long and pointed in M. cavata). Types. Holotype. Male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 3–17.iv.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Paratypes. 1 male, same as holotype except 17.iv–1.v.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 1–15.v.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 15–29.v.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 24.viii–17.ix.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 28.ix–12.x.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 12–26.x.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 26.x–9.xi.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 7.xii. 2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (on slide, IZBE); Other material. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 9–22.iii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 13–26.vi.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 27.vii–10.viii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 10–24.viii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 24.viii–17.ix.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 5 males, same data except 17–28.ix.2014 (2 on slides, 3 in alcohol, IZBE); 4 males, same data except 28.ix–12.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 4 males, same data except 12–26.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 13 males, same data except 26.x–9.xi.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 4 males, same data except 9–23.xi.2014 (1 on slide, 3 in alcohol, IZBE); 4 males, same data except 23.xi–7.xii.2014 (alcohol, IZBE); 8 males, same data except 7.xii. 2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (1 on slide, 7 in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 9–26.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 26.i–12.ii.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Jaschhof, M. & Hippa, H. (2005) The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa, 1011 (1), 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1011.1.1","Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1"]}

Manota defecta Williston, 1896 Material studied. 1 male, DOMINICA: St Paul Parish Ponte Casse, D-smart Farm, 15 22’23.4’’N 61 20’58.7’’W, alt 512m, Malaise trap, 13–20.vi.2016, BMNH(E)2016-174 Operation Wallacea, leg. E. McAlister (on slide, NHM). Remarks. The species was described from St. Vincent Island in the Southern Caribbean (Williston 1896). This record represents the first since its initial description 125 years ago and shows a wider distribution of the species at least in the Caribbean Islands., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Williston, S. W. (1896) On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1896, 253 - 446. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1896. tb 00965. x"]}

Manota spinosa Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 1–15.v.2014, leg. K.Alliku (in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 27.vii–10.viii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 17–28.ix.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 3 males, same data except 28.ix– 12.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 12–26.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 3 males, same data except 26.x–9.xi.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 23.xi–7.xii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 7.xii. 2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE). Remarks. This species was described from Costa Rica (Jaschhof & Hippa 2005) and subsequently recorded from Peru and Colombia (Hippa et al. 2017, Kurina et al. 2017).

Manota nordestina Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2018 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290 m, Malaise trap, 17–28.ix.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species was recently described from the States of Sergipe and Paraíba in Brazil (Kurina et al. 2018) and had not been recorded since.

Manota pauloides Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 Material studied. 1male, ECUADOR, Napo prov., Jatun Sacha Biological Station,observation tower, 01°04’20.56’’S 77°36’55.9’’W, alt 440 m., double Malaise trap, 24–27.viii.2019, leg. X. Mengual (on slide, INABIO). Remarks. This species was recently described from the Iquitos area in Peru (Hippa et al. 2017) and had not been recorded since., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1"]}

Manota iota Hippa & Kurina, 2013 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 23.xi–7.xii.2014, leg. K.Alliku (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 26.i–12.ii.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE). Remarks. Having been described from French Guiana and Ecuador by Hippa & Kurina (2013), the species has been subsequently recorded from the Iquitos area in Peru (Hippa et al. 2017)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2013) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3686 (2), 101 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3686.2.1","Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1"]}

Manota parva Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 Material studied. 1 male, NICARAGUA, Rio San Juan, Bartola, 10°58’36’’N 84°20’14’’W, Malaise trap, 3– 8.vi.2008, leg. O. Kurina (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species was described from Costa Rica (Jaschhof & Hippa 2005) and subsequently recorded also from Ecuador (Hippa & Kurina 2013) and Colombia (Kurina et al. 2017)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Jaschhof, M. & Hippa, H. (2005) The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa, 1011 (1), 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1011.1.1","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2013) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region. Zootaxa, 3686 (2), 101 - 139. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3686.2.1","Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2017) New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Colombia, Brazilian Amazonia, and Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 668, 83 - 105. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 668.11350"]}

Manota corniculata sp. n. Figs 3 A–D urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 766CA3AC-207D-457D-9FCB-7A3A1E73AFBB Male. Colour. Head light brown, face somewhat paler. Scape, pedicel yellowish, flagellar segments brown. Clypeus, mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown. Legs yellowish, apical third of hind femur brownish, tarsi appear brown due to dense trichia. Wing with light brownish tinge due to microtrichia; halter yellowish, knob brown. Abdomen brown, sternites and lateral tergites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia appear darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 1.5–1.6 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 3 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.2 times longer than palpomere 4. Nine strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 31–35 setae; anterior basalare non-setose, laterotergite with 10–14 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 4–8 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.4–1.5 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 3 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, extending to the middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, posterior margin with a wide concavity, anterior margin with deep U-shaped incision, posterior half with setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa straight. Parastylar lobe membranous, covered by ventral medial margin of gonocoxa, with two setae. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. A medially directed thin finger-like and curved process anterior to the parastylar lobe, partly covered by ventral medial margin of gonocoxa. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, bulging medially, posterior third with membranous, plate-like lobe on more ventral level bearing aggregation of 10–12 short, fine setae on anterior portion and two twisted megasetae arising from their own basal bodies (visible dorsally from juxtagonostylar megasetae) on posterior portion. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa with submarginal row of setae with prominent basal bodies. Gonocoxa drawn laterally into a setose lobe about half length of the basal part of gonocoxa. Two juxtagonostylar seta present: dorsal one a dilated, roundish megaseta, with apical whip-like part; the ventral one a sigmoid megaseta, with basal half flattened and apical half slender. Ventral juxtagonostylar megaseta is longer than dorsal one, both megasetae arising from a common basal body about half as long as the ventral megaseta. Gonostylus complex, drawn out into anteromedial and posterior finger-like lobes, both with apical, stout, curved seta, lateral margin subapically with additional small lobe, bearing similar apical seta, at medial margin with two smaller setae. Aedeagus elongated subtriangle, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly near to middle of gonostylus, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 15 on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae scattered over the surface, apical 4–5 setae longer than the rest of cercal setae. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latin, corniculata [equipped with horns], referring to the two twisted megasetae, which look like horns, ventrally from the posterior portion of dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa (on slides discernible dorsally from the juxtagonostylar megasetae). Comments. Manota corniculata sp. n. runs to couplet 19 (to M. lamasi Kurina, Hippa & Amorim, 2018) in the key to Neotropical Manota by Kurina et al. (2018) because of setose laterotergite, non-setose anterior basalare, posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa being about half length of the more basal part of gonocoxa, not elongated gonostylus and posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa being without megasetae. It differs from M. lamasi by: (1) sternite 9 posteriorly widely concave (rounded in M. lamasi), (2) gonostylus complex drawn out into anteromedial and posterior fingerlike lobes (bilobed with subquadrangular ventral lobe in M. lamasi), and (3) both juxtagonostylar megasetae with slender and pointed apical part (one juxtagonostylar megaseta apically widened, bill-shaped in M. lamasi). By the general structure of terminalia, M. corniculata is also similar to M. aligera Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017. The latter was incorrectly keyed out by Kurina et al. (2018). Because of the setose laterotergite, short posterolateral lobe of gonocoxa and details of sternite 9, M. aligera must run to couplet 23 (cf. Kurina et al. 2018). Manota corniculata, M. aligera and M. lamasi are distinguished from other Neotropical species by a submarginal row of setae with prominent basal bodies along the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxite (cf. Hippa et al. 2017: fig. 3 B; Kurina et al. 2018: fig. 7 A). Types. Holotype. Male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 13–27.vii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Paratypes. 1 male, same as holotype except 3–17.iv.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 27.vii–10.viii.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 12–26.x.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 9–23.xi.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 23.xi–7.xii.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 2 males, same as holotype except 7.xii.2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (on slides, IZBE); 1 male, same as holotype except 9–26.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (on slide, IZBE) Other material. 2 males, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts,Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 1–15.v.2014, leg. K. Alliku (in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 15–29.v.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 7.xii.2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on pages 87-88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1","Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1"]}

Manota serrulata Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 18–28.ii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 22.iii–3.iv.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 13–26.vi.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 26.vi– 13.vii.2014 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 27.vii–10.viii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 10–24.viii.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 3 males, same data except 28.ix–12.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 7 males, same data except 12–26.x.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 26.x–9.xi.2014 (in alcohol, IZBE); 3 males, same data except 7.xii. 2014 – 9.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 9–26.i.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, same data except 26.i–12.ii.2015, leg. A. Truuverk (in alcohol, IZBE). Remarks. Having been described from the Iquitos area in Peru (Hippa et al. 2017), the species has been subsequently recorded from the southern Amazonian forest and northern range of the Atlantic forest in Brazil (Kurina et al. 2018)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Hippa, H., Kurina, O. & Saaksjarvi, I. (2017) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Peruvian Amazonia, with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa, 4236 (1), 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4236.1.1","Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1"]}

Manota aligera Hippa, Kurina & Sääksjärvi, 2017 Material studied. 1 male, FRENCH GUIANA: Régina, Kaw Mts, Amazon Nature Lodge, 4.55856N 52.20612W, alt 290m, Malaise trap, 23.xi–7.xii.2014, leg. K. Alliku (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species was described from the Iquitos area in Peru (Hippa et al. 2017) and subsequently recorded also from the State of Mato Grosso in Brazil (Kurina et al. 2018).

Manota rotundistylus Jaschhof & Hippa, 2005 Material studied. 1 male, ECUADOR, Napo prov., Yanayacu Biological Station, 00°36’59.12’’S 77°52’59.56’’W, alt 2122 m., Malaise trap, 1–3.ix.2019, leg. X. Mengual (on slide, INABIO). Remarks. This species was described from Costa Rica (Jaschhof & Hippa 2005) and had not been recorded since., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi & Hippa, Heikki, 2021, Additions to the knowledge of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from the Neotropical region, with description of four new species, pp. 85-100 in Zootaxa 4938 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4561392, {"references":["Jaschhof, M. & Hippa, H. (2005) The genus Manota in Costa Rica (Diptera: Mycetophilidae). Zootaxa, 1011 (1), 1 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1011.1.1"]}

Manota triseta sp. n. Figs 12 A–C Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellowish. Legs yellowish to light brown, apical fourth to third of hind femur infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with brown knob. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.3 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.4 times as long as palpomere 4. 9-11 strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 52–57 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite non-setose; preepisternum 2 with 13–17 setae; metepisternum with 15–16 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.7–1.9 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 12 A–C). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa at posterior 2/3, anterior 1/3 fused with gonocoxa, posterior margin membranous, shallowly concave, extending about the middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with deep and wide V-shaped incision medially, anterior half non-setose, setae on posterior half similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin simple. Parastylar lobe large, plate-like, two setae anteriorly on ventral surface. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, slightly convex, with tight aggregation of fine setae posteriorly on ventral surface. On the ventral side of the posteromedial angle a finger-like lobe bearing two apical setae. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, a normal seta and apically curved simple megaseta, both arising from a common basal body, which is about of the length of megaseta. Gonostylus elongated, about 5 times as long as wide, slightly curved, with a medial small hump-like lobe bearing 2 normal setae, and with 3 very long and medially directed setae apically, otherwise the gonostylar setosity is similar to that of gonocoxa. Aedeagus short, subtriangular, with prominent lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct posteriorly not reaching the base of gonostylus, the ventral setae strong and forming a mesial longitudinal stripe of ca. 5 setae on each half. Cerci medially separate, simple, the setae confined to apical part, the longest ones maximally two times longer than the apical width of cercus. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latin, triseta, ‘three setae’, referring to the three very long medially directed apical setae of gonostylus; noun in apposition. Comments. The non-setose laterotergite, setose preepisternum 2, and the gonocoxa posterodorsally with a fingerlike lobe with two apical setae group M. triseta sp. n. together to M. comata, M. pedicellata, M. relicina, M. petiolata and M. burundiensis. Among them, M. triseta is unique in having gonostylus apically or subapically without small lobe that bears two rather short megasetae. Otherwise, M. triseta is similar to M. issongo because of very long, medially directed setae apically on the gonostylus but distinguished in having (1) the finger-like lobe posterodorsally on the gonocoxa with two setae at apex (one seta in M. issongo), (2) the three very long setae apically on the gonostylus (two setae in M. issongo), (3) the two setae medially on the gonostylus arise from a distinct lobe (no distinct lobe discernible in M. issongo), (4) the two setae on the parastylar lobe separated by a distinct gap (two setae on the parastylar lobe close to each other in M. issongo), and (5) the ventral setae of hypoproct are in one row on each side, flanking the apex of aedeagus (setae on the hypoproct arranged as a patch in M. issongo). Types. Holotype. Male, GHANA, Volta region, Wli Falls, Agumatsa (St. 6A), 12– 21.11.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO). Paratypes. 4 males, as holotype (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO); 3 males, as holotype except 11– 20.11.1993 (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO); 2 males, GHANA, Volta region, Wli Falls, Afegame (St. 9A), 7– 10.03.1993, NUFU-ZMBN/ leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO); male, GUINEA, Monts Nimba / DL-HP-JYR // Source 1200 M/ Piége Malaise / 27-iv–7-v-1993 (slide mounted, MNHN); male, GUINEA, Mt. Nimba, Ft. Gal. du Zougué, 750 m, 18–29.VI.1991, Girard et Legrand col., Piège de Malaise (slide mounted, MNHN). Additional material. 23 males, GHANA, Volta region; Wli Falls, Agumatsa; St: 11, 11- 20.11.1993; NUFUproject ZMBN; leg. J. Kjaerandsen (1 slide mounted, 22 in alcohol, IZBE and NHMO); male same data except 13– 20.11.1993 (in alcohol, NHMO) .

Manota clurina Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. CÔTE D’IVOIRE: male, rég. de Tai, 1–15.ii.1985, G. Gouturier & V. Van Zeijst Réc., BIO (24), Friche de 6 ans, Piége malaise, ORSTOM-Paris, Mission UNESCO (slide mounted, MNHN). Remarks. The species was described from Uganda (Hippa & Kurina 2012) and has not been recorded since. Manota comata Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. GHANA: 9 males, Volta region, Wli Falls, Agumatsa (St. 10), 11– 20.11.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO); 6 males, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10– 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (3 slide mounted, IZBE, 3 in alcohol, NHMO); 5 males, same data except 8– 15.11.1994 (2 slide mounted NHMO, 3 in alcohol, NHMO); male, Western region, Ankasa game prod. Reserve, 6–12.XII.1993 (St: 1–8, 13), NUFU-project ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Andersen (in alcohol, NHMO). GUINEA: male, Mt. Nimba, Ft. Gal. du Zougué, 750m, 18–29.vi.1991, Piège de Malaise, Girard et Legrand col. (slide mounted, MNHN). D.R. CONGO: male, Oriental Prov., Likombo forest, 2 km SW, Bomane, 1.28349, 23.72358, 20–22.v.2010, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs, Malaise traps lowland evergreen primary forest (disturbed), Boyekoli Ebale Congo Expedition 2010, BECE 00466 (slide mounted, BMSA). UGANDA: male, Western region, Budongo Forest; N 01°43’18,9’’ E 031°31’46,7’’ (Site 9) 4–8 July 2010 G. Kvifte leg., Malaise trap (slide mounted, NHMO). Remarks.The species has so far been known from the type locality in Ghana and from Uganda (Hippa & Kurina 2012).

Manota ghanaensis Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. GHANA: 5 males, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10��� 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T.Anderson (1 slide mounted, IZBE; 4 in alcohol, NHMO); 4 males, same data, except 8��� 15.11.1994 (3 slide mounted, IZBE; 1 in alcohol, NHMO). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the holotype collected from exactly the same locality as our studied specimens (Hippa & Kurina 2012)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1"]}

Manota kjaerandseni sp. n. Figs 6 A–C Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown. Legs yellowish, apical third of hind femur and basal fourth of mid femur infuscated. Wing with brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter entirely brownish. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.7 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 subapically constricted, without parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.6–1.7 times longer than palpomere 4. 8–9 strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 25–26 setae; anterior basalare with 5–6 setae; laterotergite with 19 setae; preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 20–23 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.6–1.7 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 6 A–C). Sternite 9 laterally fused to gonocoxa, posterior margin convex, extending over base of gonostylus, anterior margin with a narrow deep V-shaped incision medially, anterior half non-setose, setae on posterior half similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa short, simple. Parastylar lobe finger-like with one strong apical seta. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa medially simple, posteriorly drawn out into an apically rounded large lobe, covering basal third of gonostylus and bearing two subapical, medially directed megasetae: the posterior one short and pointed, the anterior one longer, with a whip-like apical part. Ventrally from dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa a large medially bulging plate-like lobe bearing a row of 6 simple and strong megasetae, 3 anteriors apically slightly tapering, 3 posteriors blunt, slightly widening apically. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, both are simple, apically pointed megasetae, arising from small separate basal bodies which are similar to normal sockets of setae. Gonostylus elongated, basal third heel-like bulging medially, with an extra-long apical seta and 8–9 longer setae along apical 2/3 of medial margin. Aedeagus elongate subtriangular, apical 2/3 almost parallel-sided, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to the middle of gonostylus, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 30 on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae scattered over the surface, apical setae deviating from others, longer than the subapical width of cercus. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after Dr. Jostein Kjaerandsen (University of Tromsø, Norway), an active student of fungus gnats’ systematics and the collector of a number of the specimens from Ghana studied in this paper. Comments. Manota kjaerandseni sp. n. belongs to a group of 14 Afrotropical species that have (1) setose laterotergite and anterior basalare, (2) the ventral setae of the hypoproct scattered over the whole ventral surface, (3) non-setose preepisternum 2, and (4) the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa posteriorly without a row of scale- or leaf-like megasetae. Among them, the new species is unique in having a row of 6 slender and blunt megasetae marginally on a bulging plate-like lobe at the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa and in having the posterodorsal part of gonocoxa elongated and posteriorly rounded and with two megasetae on the medial margin. Types. Holotype. Male, GHANA, Volta region, Wli Falls, Afegame (St. 6A), 9– 12.03.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J.S. Amakye & J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO). Paratypes. Male, GHANA, Western region, Ankasa game prod. Reserve (St. 2), 06– 12.12.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO); male, GHANA, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 8– 15.10.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (slide mounted, IZBE); male, same data except 8– 15.11.1994 (slide mounted, IZBE); 2 males, CÔTE D’IVOIRE, rég. de Tai / 1–15.ii.1985 / G. Gouturier & V. Van Zeijst Réc. // BIO (24) / Friche 6 ans / Piège malaise // ORSTOM-Paris / Mission UNESCO (slide mounted, MNHN). Additional material. 2 males, GHANA, Wli Falls, 4– 13.03.1993, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (in alcohol, NHMO) .

Manota polylobata sp. n. Figs 11 A–D Male. Colour. Head light brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna: scape and pedicel light brown, flagella absent in holotype. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown to brown. Legs yellowish, apical fourth of hind femur slightly infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with blackish knob. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 not measurable in holotype. Nine strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 40 setae; anterior basalare with 10 setae, laterotergite with 34 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 21 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 2.2 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 11 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally fused to gonocoxa, posterior margin broad, convex, extending over middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with a deep and narrow V-shaped incision medially, anterior 1/3 non-setose, posterior 2/3 setose, setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa oblique, laterally from gonostylus drawn into a suboval lobe about half of gonostylus length, bearing conspicuous microtrichia on ventral surface and two subapical twisted and apically whip-like megasetae. Parastylar lobe bifurcate, anterior branch short, smaller than posterior that has an apical seta. No paraapodemal lobes identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple with submembranous lobe on more ventral level, just anteriorly from juxtagonostylar setae, bearing row of three megasetae gradually diminishing in size posteriad: anterior megaseta flat and apically dilated, medial megaseta similar but apically somewhat narrower, posterior megaseta pointed. Gonocoxal apodeme unusual, posteriorly strongly widened. Setae on dorsal side of gonocoxa similar to those on ventral side. Two juxtagonostylar seta present, both short, flattened and expanded megasetae, arising from a common basal body which is shorter than megasetae. Gonostylus complex, with prominent medial lobe and two small lobes laterally; the medial prominent lobe longitudinally drawn out, about half as long as gonocoxa, apically conical with ca. 8 long marginal setae, medial margin with an aggregation of ca. 10 setae on ventral surface, dorsally with an additional medial lobe bearing a row of 6–7 setae; the lateral lobe subquadrangular with 6–8 small setae apically; the medial lobe finger-like with 4 apical setae. Aedeagus subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly near to apex of gonostylus, apical third tapering, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 40 on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae scattered over the surface, apical 4–5 setae about twice as long as rest of cercal setae. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is combined from Greek πολύ (polú) ‘many’ and Latin lobata ‘lobed, with lobes’, referring to the four-lobed gonostylus. Comments. Manota polylobata sp. n. belongs to a group of 14 Afrotropical species that have (1) setose laterotergite and anterior basalare, (2) the ventral setae of the hypoproct scattered over the whole ventral surface, (3) nonsetose preepisternum 2, and (4) the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa posteriorly without a row of scale- or leaf-like megasetae (see couplets 21 to 33 in the Key of the Afrotropical species above). Among them, M. polylobata is most similar to M. tridactyla in having a complex gonostylus, two leaf-like juxtagonostylar megasetae, and megasetae at dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa close to posterior end of the margin (should not to be confused with a distinct row of leaf- or scale like megasetae posteriorly on dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa as defined under M. geniculata). Manota polylobata differs in having 3 megasetae at dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa with the anteriormost megaseta apically dilated (4 megasetae with the anteriormost hook-like in M. tridactyla). Types. Holotype. Male, NIGERIA, SE State, Obudu CR, 27.ix.1973, J.T. Medler coll. (slide mounted, MNHN).

Manota macrodon Hippa, 2008 Material. MADAGASCAR: male, Fianarantsoa, Ranomafana National Park, Talatakely, 800m SW entrance, 21��15,48���S 47��25,27���E, 16���19.x. 2014, 610 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin���Hala, Malaise trap secondary rainforest (slide mounted, BMSA); 4 males, Tamatave Torotorofotsy, Andasibe (Perinet), 22 km NW, 18��46,25���S 48��25,93���E; 23���25.x. 2014, 960 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin���Hala, Malaise trap primary rainforest (slide mounted, BMSA and IZBE). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the holotype collected from Province Fianarantsoa in Madagascar (Hippa 2008). The current records indicate a wider distribution on the Island., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. (2008) Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species. Zootaxa, 1741 (1), 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1741.1.1"]}

Manota petiolata Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. GHANA: male, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10��� 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (in alcohol, NHMO); 3 males, same data except 8��� 15.11.1994 (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO). Remarks. The species has so far been known from the type locality in Uganda and from D.R. Congo (Hippa & Kurina 2012, Kurina & Hippa 2014)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 434, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1","Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota cultigera Hippa, 2008 Material. MADAGASCAR: 2 males, Mahajanga, Boeny, Ankarafantsika NP, 16.30268S 46.81041E, 58 m, Malaise trap, #MAD09-38, 9.xii.2009 ��� 5.i.2010, Bergsten, J. et. al. leg. (slide mounted, NHRS-BYWS000000732). Remarks. The species has so far been known only by type material from two localities in Madagascar (Hippa 2008)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. (2008) Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species. Zootaxa, 1741 (1), 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1741.1.1"]}

Manota grootaerti Kurina & Hippa, 2014 Material. D.R. CONGO: male, Oriental Prov, Eyolo forest, ca 2 km E, Lieki, 0.67642, 24.24186, 25���29.v.2010, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs, Malaise traps lowland evergreen swamp forest, Boyekoli Ebale Congo Expedition 2010, BECE 02270 (slide mounted, BMSA). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the holotype collected from Yangambi NP in D.R. Congo, North from Congo River (Kurina & Hippa 2014). The studied specimen was collected from same area but South from Congo River., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota burundiensis sp. n. Figs 1 A���C Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown to brown. Legs yellowish to light brown, apical half of hind femur, and apical and basal thirds of mid femur infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with blackish knob. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.7 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment. Nine strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 68 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite non-setose; preepisternum 2 with 25 setae; metepisternum with 17 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 2.3 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 1 A���C). Sternite 9 narrow, about two times as long as wide, posterior �� laterally free from gonocoxa, anterior �� fused with gonocoxa, posterior margin with deep V-shaped incision medially, extending over middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with a deep V-shaped incision medially, anterior half non-setose, setae on posterior half similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa angular. Parastylar lobe large, plate-like, medially drawn out to a finger like process, which has two strong setae apically. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, slightly bulging medially. Dorsal posterior margin simple, forming together with medial margin an acute angle with a dense aggregation of fine setae on medial side. On ventral side of dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa a finger-like lobe bearing two strong apical setae. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, a normal seta and apically curved simple megaseta, both arising from a common basal body, which is about as long as the megaseta. Gonostylus subcircular, setose, setae similar to those on gonocoxa except for conspicuously long setae along apical margin; apicomedially with a small lobe bearing two dorsally turned megasetae at apex. Aedeagus subtriangular, with lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly over basal part of gonostylus, the ventral setae strong and forming a mesial longitudinal stripe of 7���8 setae on each half. Cerci medially separated; setae delimited on the apical half of cercus. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after its occurrence in the state of Burundi by adding the Latin suffix ���ensis [denoting place]. Comments. Manota burundiensis sp. n. belongs to a group of six Afrotropical species as defined under M. triseta. Among them, M. burundiensis is most similar to M. relicina (see Hippa & Kurina 2012: fig. 20) as both species have the cercal setae short and delimited on the apical half of cercus, and the gonostylus with an apical or subapical medial lobe bearing two simple megasetae. It differs in having (1) one juxtagonostylar seta as a normal seta (both juxtagonostylar setae are megasetae in M. relicina), (2) the common basal body of the juxtagonostylar setae is about as long as setae (the basal body is considerably longer than juxtagonostylar megasetae in M. relicina), (3) parastylar lobe with two unusually strong setae at medial corner (with normal setae in M. relicina), (4) gonostylus apically rounded (apically transverse in M. relicina), and (5) dorsal posterior margin of the gonocoxa forming together with medial margin an acute angle with a dense aggregation of fine setae on medial side (with a row of closely placed setae in M. relicina). Types. Holotype. Male, BURUNDI, Kayanza Prov., Parc National de la Kibira, Rwecura sector, Indigenous Afromontane forest, 02��55.320���S 29��30.067���E, Malaise trap, 21���26.xi.2010, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs leg. (slide mounted, BMSA)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on pages 407-409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1"]}

Manota mabokeensis Matile, 1972 Material. D.R. CONGO: male, Oriental Prov. Likombo forest, 2km SW Bomane, 1.28349, 23.72358; 20���22.v.2010, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs, Malaise traps lowland evergreen primary forest (disturbed), BMSA(D) 58310 (slide mounted, BMSA). UGANDA: male, Semuliki NP, 0��50���8������N 30��9���46������E, 670 m, Malaise trap, 9���15.ii.2013, F. Molleman et al. leg. (slide mounted, IZBE); male, same data except 15���22.ii.2013 (slide mounted, IZBE); male, Bwindi NP, 01��03���N 29��43���E, Malaise trap (No 1), 10���25.iii.2014, F. Molleman et al. leg. (slide mounted, IZBE). Remarks. The species was described from the Central African Republic (Matile 1972) and subsequently recorded from Uganda and D.R. Congo (Hippa 2008, Hippa & Kurina 2012, Kurina & Hippa 2014)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Matile, L. (1972) Dipteres Mycetophilidae du Cameroun et de Republique Centrafricaine. II. Manotinae. Bulletin de l'Institut fundamental d'Afrique noire, Serie A, 34, 91 - 97.","Hippa, H. (2008) Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species. Zootaxa, 1741 (1), 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1741.1.1","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1","Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota fuscinula sp. n. Figs 3 A–D Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellowish to light brown. Legs yellowish to light brown. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter entirely brownish. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.6 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.5 times longer than palpomere 4. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 56 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite non-setose; preepisternum 2 with 20 setae; metepisternum with 11 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 almost extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.6 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 3 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, posterior margin straight, membranous, extending over middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with deep Vshaped incision medially, anterior 1/3 non-setose, setae on posterior 2/3 similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin simple, membranous. Parastylar lobe plate-like, rectangular, apical part with 3 setae. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, posteriorly forming well delimited setose lobe with dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa. Ventrally from dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa a finger-like lobe bearing a strong apical seta. Two juxtagonostylar setae present, one is a rather unmodified seta, the other is a flattened apically pointed megaseta and twice as long as the former, both arising from a common basal body which is about as long as the unmodified seta. Gonostylus elongate, rectangular, apical third slightly bent medially, lateral margin folded dorsally at basal half, setae similar to these on gonocoxa except 2–3 apical setae and 2 setae on lateral margin which are stronger, deviating from others. Aedeagus subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly to base of gonostyli, ventral setae distributed only on apical fourth, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 10 on each half. Cerci medially separated, subapically constricted, with a row of apical setae only. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latin, fuscinula, ‘small trident’, referring to the three strong setae apically on the gonostylus; noun in apposition. Comments. Manota fuscinula sp. n. belongs to a group of eight Afrotropical species as defined under M. limai. For further comments, see the latter species. Types. Holotype. Male, GHANA, G. Accra region, Legon, Botanical Garden, 1– 3.12.1993, NUFU-ZMBN/ leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO).

Manota dissidens Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. GHANA: 10 males, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10��� 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (2 slide mounted, IZBE; 8 in alcohol, NHMO); 27 males, same data except 8��� 15.10.1994, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (2 slide mounted, IZBE; 25 in alcohol, NHMO). C��TE D���IVOIRE: 2 males, r��g. de Tai, 16.i.-1.ii.1985, G. Gouturier & V. Van Zeijst R��c., BIO (21), (Gilbert), Friche 17 ans, Pi��ge malaise, ORSTOM-Paris, Mission UNESCO (slide mounted, MNHN); male, same data except 1���15.ii.1985 (slide mounted, MNHN); male, same data except 7���11.ii.1985, BIO (25) For��t noire station (slide mounted, MNHN). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the type locality in Ghana: Central region, Kakum National Park (Hippa & Kurina 2012)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1"]}

Manota leptochaeta sp. n. Figs 7 A–D Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown to brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellowish. Legs yellowish, basal third of hind femur infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with blackish knob. Abdomen brown to dark brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter.All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.8 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.5 times longer than palpomere 4. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 69 setae; anterior basalare with 13 setae, laterotergite with 32 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose, metepisternum with 12 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 2.2 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 7 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally fused to gonocoxa, posterior margin broad, convex, extending to base of gonostylus, anterior margin with a shallow and wide V-shaped concavity medially, anterior half non-setose, posterior half setose, setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa short, simple. Parastylar lobe finger-like, tapering, with a stout and medially curved apical seta. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa medially bulging, forming an obtuse lobe with dorsal posterior margin, dorsal surface of gonocoxa anteriorly and laterally setose, lateral setae similar to those on ventral side, anterior setae shorter and placed more densely, medial and posterior parts non-setose except two marginal setae posteromedially. Medioventrally from the dorsal medial margin a thumb-like lobe with a stout megaseta apically (in holotype that megaseta is broken in both sides). One juxtagonostylar seta present, a simple, apically whip-like megaseta arising from a finger-like basal body that is longer than the megaseta. Gonostylus bilobed: subrectangular lateral lobe about half of the gonocoxal height, with 7–8 strong setae along lateral and apical margins; subequal, medially directed and towards apex tapering lobe, with one basal and 2 apical setae along posterior margin and 2 more basal setae on dorsal surface. Aedeagus elongate subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly over gonostyli, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 30 on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae delimited on the apical part and medial margin, apical 4 setae somewhat longer, deviating from others. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latinized from the Greek λεπτóς (leptos) ‘thin/slender/narrow’ and χαίτη (chaítç) ‘bristle/seta’, referring to the considerably narrow juxtagonostylar megaseta. Comments. Manota leptochaeta sp. n. belongs to a group of 12 Afrotropical species as defined under M. platychaeta. Among these species M. leptochaeta is unique in having one megaseta on a lobe medially at dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa and gonostylus with a prominent medially directed lobe (all other species have at least two megasetae at the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa or are without megasetae (M. edentula), and gonostylus without a prominent medial lobe). Types. Holotype. Male, MADAGASCAR: Tamatave Torotorofotsy, Andasibe (Perinet), 22 km NW, 18°46,25’S 48°25,93’E, 23–25.x. 2014, 960 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin’Hala, Malaise trap primary rainforest (slide mounted, BMSA)

Manota reclinata Kurina & Hippa, 2014 Figs 14 A���D Material. GHANA: 4 males, Volta region, Wli Falls, Afegame (St. 10A), 3��� 7.03.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J.S. Amakye & J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO); male, same data except 4��� 7.03.1993 (slide mounted, NHMO); male, same data except 6��� 9.03.1993 (in alcohol, NHMO); 2 males, same data except 9��� 12.03.1993 (in alcohol, NHMO); 2 males, same data except 7��� 10.03.1993 (1 slide mounted, IZBE; 1 in alcohol, NHMO); 4 males, same data except 10��� 13.03.1993 (3 slide mounted, NHMO; 1 in alcohol, IZBE); 2 males, same data except 12��� 15.03.1993 (slide mounted, NHMO); male, same data except 11.03.1993, light trap (in alcohol, NHMO); 2 males, Volta region, Wli Falls, Agumatsa (St. 10), 11��� 20.11.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO); male, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10��� 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (slide mounted, IZBE); 3 males, same data except 8��� 15.10.1994, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (2 slide mounted, IZB; 1 in alcohol, NHMO); 2 males, Volta region, Wli Falls, 4��� 13.03.1993, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (1 slide mounted, NHMO; 1 in alcohol, IZBE). C��TE D���IVOIRE: male, r��g. de Tai, 1���15.ii.1985, G. Gouturier & V. Van Zeijst R��c., BIO (24), Friche 6 ans, Pi��ge malaise // ORSTOM - Paris, Mission UNESCO (slide mounted, MNHN); male, same data except 7���11.ii.1985, BIO (25) For��t noire station (slide mounted, MNHN). GUINEA: 3 males, Ft. Gal. du Zougu��, 750m, 18���29.vi.1991, Pi��ge de Malaise, Girard et Legrand col. (2 slide mounted, IZBE and MNHN; 1 pinned, MNHN); 2 males, same data, except 3���17.vi.1991 (pinned, MNHN). Remarks. The species is described from the male holotype collected from Kona on Itimbti river in D.R. Congo and not recorded since (Kurina & Hippa 2014). The study of more extensive material disclosed a small variation in male terminalia (Figs 14 A���D), especially in details of the gonostylus and the setigerous lobe dorsally from juxtagonostylar megasetae, which are well exposed in the slide mounts of the newly studied specimens., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota peltata Kurina & Hippa, 2014 Material. GHANA: male, Central Region, Kakum, Entwikrom, 31.10– 8.11.1994, NUFU-project-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (slide mounted, NHMO). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the holotype collected from Yangambi National Park in D.R. Congo (Kurina & Hippa 2014).

Manota relicina Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. UGANDA: mal e, Bwindi NP, 01°03’N 29°43’E, Malaise trap (No 2), 10–25.iii.2014, F. Molleman et al. leg. (slide mounted, IZBE). Remarks. The species has so far been known only from the type locality in Uganda (Hippa & Kurina 2012).

Manota geniculata sp. n. Figs 4 A–D Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown to brown. Legs yellowish, apical fourth of hind femur slightly infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with dark brown knob. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.7 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 not measurable in holotype. Ten strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 43 setae; anterior basalare with 5 setae, laterotergite with 21 setae, preepisternum 2 non-setose; metepisternum with 15 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.9 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 4 A–D). Sternite 9 laterally fused to gonocoxa, posterior margin semicircular, tongue-like, extending to base gonostylus, anterior margin with a shallow concavity, anterior 1/3 non-setose, posterior 2/3 setose, setae similar to those on ventral side of gonocoxa but arranged more densely. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa oblique. Parastylar lobe plate-like, medially drawn out to a finger-like lobe that has an apical seta. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa complex, posteriorly with a row of five flattened and apically pointed megasetae at medial margin and a single equal megaseta at posterolateral corner. At the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa, on more ventral level a plate-lake submembranous lobe with two medially directed simple and blunt megasetae at anteromedial corner, and a posteriorly directed geniculate megasetae arising from a finger-like basal body. Gonocoxal apodeme large, polygonal. One juxtagonostylar seta present as a flattened and apically expanded megaseta arising from a curved basal body which is about five times longer than the megaseta. Gonostylus slightly less than half of the ventral length of gonocoxa, medially geniculate, basal half twice as wide as apical half, basal half ventrally setose, dorsally non-setose except for two strong setae, apical half with two strong setae at basal portion of medial margin and 4–5 apical setae, 2–3 of them stronger, deviating from others. Aedeagus elongated subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. In holotype, aedeagal apodemes turned upward, pressed against the basal part of aedeagus. Hypoproct large, extending posteriorly near to apex of gonostylus, number of ventral setae (sternite 10) ca. 50 on each half, the setae indistinctly divided into an anterior and posterior groups with ca. 45 and 5 setae, respectively. Cerci medially separated, setae scattered over the surface, apical 4–5 setae about twice as long as the rest of cercal setae. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latin, geniculata, ‘like the bent knee’, referring to the geniculate gonostylus. Comments. Manota geniculata sp. n. belongs to a group of six Afrotropical species that have (1) setose laterotergite and anterior basalare, (2) the ventral setae of the hypoproct scattered over the whole ventral surface, (3) nonsetose preepisternum 2, and (4) the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa posteriorly with a row of scale- or leaf-like megasetae. The other species being M. bracteata, M. foliolata, M. peltigera, M. pinnata and M. pinnulata. Manota geniculata, M. peltigera and M. pinnulata all have 3 flattened megasetae at the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa posteriorly and a tongue-like posterior part of sternite 9. The latter character is shared also with M. foliolata, but that species has only two flattened megasetae posteriorly at the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa. Of these three species, M. geniculata is most similar to M. pinnulata (cf. Hippa & Kurina 2012: fig. 18) but differs in having the gonostylus geniculate (subtriangular, widening from base to apex in M. pinnulata), and in having the megasetae posteriorly at the dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa comma-like, apically pointed, and becoming medially wider towards posterior end of the row (megasetae scale-like, apically widening and enlarging in size towards posterior end of the row in M. pinnulata). Types. Holotype. Male, GABON, Makoku M’Passa Bale affl., 200 m, J. Legrand rec., 28.05– 5.06. 1979, Piège de Malaise (slide mounted, MNHN).

Manota cornuta sp. n. Figs 2 A���C Male. Colour. Head brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax light brown. Legs yellowish to light brown, apical fifth of hind femur infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter entirely brownish. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment; palpomere 5 1.4���1.5 times longer than palpomere 4. 10-11 strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 52 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite non-setose; preepisternum 2 with 12���15 setae; metepisternum with 14���19 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 almost extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.9 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 2 A���C). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, posterior margin membranous, slightly concave, extending over middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior margin with deep and wide V-shaped incision medially, anterior 1/3 and posterior membranous part nonsetose, setae on posterior 2/3 slightly shorter than those on ventral side of gonocoxa, postero-laterally with fingerlike sclerotizations on dorsal surface of both sides, which bear one short and curved apical seta deviating from other setosity on sternite 9. Ventral medial margin simple, membranous. Parastylar lobe plate-like, subrectangular, medially constricted, apically with 3 short and curved setae. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, posteriorly forming well delimited setose bill-like small lobe with dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa. Three juxtagonostylar setae present, all megaseta-like, the dorsal one apically slightly curved, with an apically separate basal body, the two dorsal ones more prominent, apically hook-like curved, with a common basal body which is more than half of the length of megasetae. Gonostylus dorso-ventrally wide, lateroapically, between dorsal and ventral portions concave; dorsal portion narrow, tapering with basal heel-like lobe, subbasal setose hump and 2���3 more prominent setae dorsoapically; ventral portion wide, with two blunt, medially directed megasetae apically and two more prominent setae subapically. Aedeagus elongate subtriangular, without lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct posteriorly not extending to the basal part of gonostylus, ventral setae (sternite 10) forming a medial longitudinal stripe of ca. 8 setae on each half. Cerci (scarcely discernible on slides) medially separated, largely membranous, with unusually narrow apical parts, bearing 4���5 setae. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The name is Latin, cornuta, ���horned���, referring to the horn-like setigerous lobe at posterolateral corners of sternite 9. Comments. Manota cornuta sp. n. is similar to M. afra and the two key out in the same couplet in the species key. Both species have three juxtagonostylar megasetae that is unique among the Afrotropical species. The unique finger-like posterolateral lobes on sternite 9 and the unusually narrow apical part of cercus, distinguishes M. cornuta from all known Manota. Types. Holotype. Male, GHANA, Volta region, Wli Falls, Afegame (St. 10A), 7��� 10.03.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J.S. Amakye & J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO). Paratypes. Male, GHANA, Volta region, Wli Falls, Afegame (St. 8A), 11��� 20.11.1993, NUFU-ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen (slide mounted, NHMO)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 409, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902

Manota oronnai sp. n. Figs 9 A���C Male. Colour. Head light brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax yellowish to light brown. Legs yellowish to light brown, apical third of hind femur infuscated. Wing with light brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellowish with blackish knob. Abdomen brown, tergites laterally and sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae and trichia seeming darker than finer ones. Head. Antennal flagellomere 4 ca. 1.3 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 4 apically curved sensilla; palpomere 4 with parasegment. Nine strong postocular setae. Thorax. Anepisternum with 65 setae; anterior basalare and laterotergite nonsetose; preepisternum 2 with 13 setae; metepisternum with 9 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 not extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.9 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 9 A���C). Sternite 9 laterally free from gonocoxa, posterior and anterior margins both with deep V-shaped incision medially, extending about middle between bases of gonocoxa and gonostylus, anterior half non-setose, setae on posterior half somewhat shorter than those on ventral side of gonocoxa. Ventral medial margin of gonocoxa angular. Parastylar lobe large, plate-like, triangular, with two setae at medial angle. No paraapodemal lobe identifiable. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa simple, convex. Dorsal posterior margin simple, forming together with medial margin a right angled lobe with a dense aggregation of fine setae on medial side. On ventral side of dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa an elongated, subrectangular lobe, about twice as long as wide, with aggregation of fine setae at apex. One juxtagonostylar setae present, a simple, apically vasculiform megaseta, arising from a basal body, which is longer than the megaseta. Gonostylus subrectangular, apically transverse, with a very long seta deviating from other setosity at apicolateral corner, and with a short finger-like lobe subapically on medial side bearing two weak and simple apical megasetae. Aedeagus subtriangular, with lateral shoulders, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct extending posteriorly over basal part of gonostylus, the ventral setae (sternite 10) strong and forming a mesial longitudinal stripe of 5���6 setae on each half. Cerci medially separated, setae delimited on the apical and medial margins of cercus. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after the mythical hero Oronna who defended the town Ilaro when it got under the threat of invasion by the Dahomean Army in the 17 th century. Comments. Because of the non-setose laterotergite, setose preepisternum 2 and gonocoxa posterodorsally with an apical setae bearing lobe, the new species groups together with 16 other Afrotropical species (see couplets 36 to 52 in the Key of the Afrotropical species above). Among them, M. oronnai sp. n. is unique as the lobe posterodorsally from the gonocoxa is subrectangular and with an aggregation of fine setae apically while all other species have this lobe finger-like and with 1���3 strong setae apically. In addition, the new species has a single apically vasculiform juxtagonostylar megaseta, while all other species have two juxtagonostylar setae, which are apically pointed. Types. Holotype. Male, W. NIGERIA, Ilaro Forest, 11.xi.1973, M.A. Cornes (slide mounted, MNHN)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on pages 420-423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902

Manota lachaisei Matile, 1972 Material. D.R. CONGO: male, Gal. for. De la Djoumouna, Yakayaka pi��ge adh. Lum., xii.1977, J. Trouillet leg. (slide mounted, MNHN). Remarks. The species was described from the C��te d���Ivoire (Matile 1972) and subsequently recorded from Uganda and D.R. Congo (Hippa & Kurina 2012, Kurina & Hippa 2014)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Matile, L. (1972) Dipteres Mycetophilidae du Cameroun et de Republique Centrafricaine. II. Manotinae. Bulletin de l'Institut fundamental d'Afrique noire, Serie A, 34, 91 - 97.","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1","Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota whiteleyi Jaschhof & Mostovski, 2006 Material. GHANA: 3 males, Central region, Kakum, Entwikrom 31.10��� 8.11.1994, NUFU-project ZMBN, leg. J. Kjaerandsen & T. Anderson (slide mounted, IZBE and NHMO). CAMEROON: male, North Reg. Vina, Tchabal village, 07��35,195���N 13��33,566���E; 13.viii.2013, 1362 m, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs; Malaise traps degraded savanna hill forest, BMSA(D) 54969 (slide mounted, BMSA). Remarks. The species was described from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, but was recorded also from C��te d���Ivoire (Hippa 2008). The studied specimens are more similar to the specimen figured from C��te d���Ivoire (Hippa 2008: fig. 12B) because the dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa is only slightly lobe-like produced posteriorly, while it is a more prominent lobe in South African specimens (cf. Jaschhof & Mostovski 2006: fig. 5)., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Jaschhof, M. & Mostovski, M. (2006) First record of Manota (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Manotinae) from southern Africa, with description of two new species. African Invertebrates, 47, 237 - 242.","Hippa, H. (2008) Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species. Zootaxa, 1741 (1), 1 - 23. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1741.1.1"]}

Manota foliolata Hippa & Kurina, 2012 Material. CAMEROON: male, Northwest Reg. Mezam, Bafut village at: 06��05,026���N 10��07,442���E, 17��� 19.viii.2013, 1060 m, leg. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs, Malaise traps cultivated plots & degraded forest, BMSA(D) 58256 (slide mounted, BMSA). Remarks. The species was described from Uganda (Hippa & Kurina 2012) and has not been recorded since., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 430, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1"]}

Manota mazumbaiensis S��li, 1993 Figs 13 A���C Material. GUINEA: 3 males, Monts Nimba, DL-HP-JYR, Source 1200 m, Pi��ge 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 Zougu��, 750m, 18���29.vi.1991, Pi��ge 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 (S��li 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., Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, S��li, Geir & Kurina, Olavi, 2019, New data on the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Africa, with an updated key to the species, pp. 401-441 in Zootaxa 4652 (3) on page 432, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3364902, {"references":["Soli, G. E. E. (1993) New East African species of Manota (Diptera, Mycetophilidae). Journal of African Zoology, 107, 451 - 465.","Hippa, H. & Kurina, O. (2012) New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species. Zootaxa, 3455, 1 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3455.1.1","Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2014) The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in the Congo basin with description of five new species. Zootaxa, 3827 (2), 214 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3827.2.5"]}

Manota subspathula Hippa, 2007 Material. AUSTRALIA. 1 male, N.S.W., Taree, Lorien Wildlife Refuge, 3 Km N of Landsdowne, sclerophyll forest, Malaise trap, 31�� 45��� 04��� S, 152�� 32��� 03��� E, 17.i���4.ii.2012, G. & B. Williams col. (on slide, MZUSP); 1 male, same data except 4���23.ii.2012 (on slide, MZUSP); 1 male, same data except 23.ii���20.iii.2012 (on slide, MZUSP); 13 males, N.S.W., Port Macquarie Sea Acres NR; 10m; 1���30.iii.1999, G. Williams col. (10 in alcohol, 3 on slides, AMSA: K379109). PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1 male, Oomsis, Lae, Malaise trap, Ground 1, 06�� 40��� S, 146�� 48��� E, 23.vii.2000, R.L. Kitching col. (on slide, AMSA: K377224). Remarks. The species was previously known from Papua New Guinea (Hippa 2007, Kurina & Hippa 2015) and from the Australian mainland: Queensland (Kurina & Hippa 2015)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi, Hippa, Heikki & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, Notes on Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of two new species, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on page 394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2624522, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2015) A review of the South Pacific Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 4020 (2), 257 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4020.2.3"]}

Manota perissochaeta Hippa, 2007 Material. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 1 male, Madang Prov., Ohu Village Res., primary forest going down from Village to Wadub R., 124 masl, 5,2216��S 145,6804��E Malaise Trap, 15���27.xi.2015, coll. N. von Ellenrieder & R.W. Garrison, FFP15 PNG 06 (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. The type material of this species is from the Solomon Islands (Hippa 2007), with additional records from two localities in Papua New Guinea (Hippa 2007, Kurina & Hippa 2015), Published as part of Kurina, Olavi, Hippa, Heikki & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, Notes on Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of two new species, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on page 391, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2624522, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2015) A review of the South Pacific Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 4020 (2), 257 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4020.2.3"]}

Manota kerri sp. n. Figs 3 A���D Male. Colour. Head dark brown, face somewhat paler. Antenna light brown, including scape and pedicel. Clypeus and mouthparts pale yellowish. Thorax brown. Legs yellowish, except hind femora infuscated basally and light brown at apical fourth. Wing with brownish tinge because of microtrichia; halter yellow with blackish knob. Abdomen dark brown, sternites lighter. All vestiture pale, yellowish or brownish, thicker setae darker than finer ones. Head. Fourth antennal flagellomere 1.4 times as long as wide. Palpomere 3 of maxillary palpus with apicomesial thumb-like extension, with 2 curved apical sensillae; palpomere 4 without parasegment; palpomere 5 ca. 1.6 times longer than palpomere 4. Number of strong postocular setae 11. Thorax. Anepisternum with 35 setae, anterior basalare with 9 setae, laterotergite with 35 setae, preepisternum 2 with 5 setae, metepisternum with 11 setae. Legs. Mid and hind tibial organs absent. Wing. R 1 meeting C within basal half of costal margin; sclerotized part of M 2 almost extending to level of tip of R 1; wing length 1.6 mm. Hypopygium (Figs 3 A���D). Sternite 9 entirely fused with gonocoxa laterally, posterior margin smoothly convex, anterior margin with wide and shallow V-shaped incision, and with unmodified setae, similar throughout sternite 9 and gonocoxa. Parastylar lobe large, plate-like, posterolaterally drawn out, with two strong setae at posteromedial corner. Paraapodemal lobe not observed. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa concave, basal third bulging medially, apically forming a right-angled lobe with dorsal posterior margin of gonocoxa. Dorsal medial margin of gonocoxa medially with a sub-globular lobe bearing ca. 10 strong, apically bent setae at posterior margin. Setae on dorsal side of gonocoxa similar to those on ventral side. One juxtagonostylar seta present as a flame-shaped, apically pointed megaseta arising from basal body that is shorter than megaseta. Gonostylus about half the length of gonocoxa, bilobed, with sub-quadrangular, apically emarginated ventral lobe and a small, hump-like more dorsal lobe; former lobe with a very long apical seta at lateral corner, a shorter apical seta at medial corner, three additional strong setae at the lateral and apical margins, and with a basolateral convexity bearing ca. 10 setae; dorsal lobe with six setae strong and apically curved. Aedeagus elongate, sub-triangular, swollen sub-apically, apex curved ventrad. Hypoproct posteriorly extending near apex of gonostylus, ventral part (sternite 10) with ca. 15 scattered setae on each half. Cerci medially separate, setae separated into apical and dorsomedial groups. Female. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after Dr. Peter Kerr (California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento), who made available to us most of the material from Papua New Guinea, including the holotype of this species. Discussion. Following the key by Hippa (2007), Manota kerri sp. n. runs into couplet 8 and belongs to a group of five Oceanian species��� M. alulata Kurina & Hippa, 2015, M. hirsuta Hippa, 2007, M. lunata Kurina & Hippa, 2015, M. spathula Hippa, 2007, and M. subspathula Hippa, 2007 ���that have setose anepisternum, anterior basalare and laterotergite, and sternite 9 very large, with at least its anterior part laterally fused to the gonocoxa (see also discussion in Kurina & Hippa 2015: 262). Among them, M. kerri resembles more closely M. alulata, in having the gonostylus bilobed, not elongated, and sternite 9 entirely fused to the gonocoxa. Manota kerri differs from M. alulata in having: (1) posterior margin of sternite 9 smoothly convex (with sub-medial incisions in M. alulata); (2) the parastylar lobe large, plate-like, posterolaterally drawn out, with two strong setae at the posteromedial corner (bipartite, with a finger-like dorsomedial part in M. alulata); (3) the juxtagonostylar megaseta flame-shaped (simple in M. alulata); (4) ca. 10 strong setae on the sub-globular lobe ventrally from the dorsal medial margin of the gonocoxa apically bent at right angles and arranged at margin (M. alulata has ca. 17 strong, apically straight setae, arranged across the dorsal surface of the sub-globular lobe); (5) gonostylus with the ventral lobe apically blunt, somewhat emarginated (ventral lobe of the gonostylus apically tapering in M. alulata); and (6) aedeagus subapically swollen (apical half tapering, basal half with membranous lateral lobe in M. alulata). Type material. Holotype. Male, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Madang Prov., Wanang Cons. Area, hilltop clearing in forest behind Swire Research Station 172 masl, 5��13.682���S 145��4.752���E Malaise Trap, 17���22.xi.2015, coll. N. von Ellenrieder & R.W. Garrison CSCA16L013 (on slide, IZBE)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi, Hippa, Heikki & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, Notes on Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of two new species, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on pages 389-391, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2624522, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2015) A review of the South Pacific Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 4020 (2), 257 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4020.2.3"]}

Manota hamulata Colless, 1966 Material. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 11 males, Madang Prov., Wanang Cons. Area, hilltop clearing in forest behind Swire Research Station 172 masl, 5��13.682���S 145��4.752���E Malaise Trap, 17���22.xi.2015 coll, N.von Ellenrieder & R.W.Garrison, CSCA16L013 (2 on slides, 9 in alcohol, IZBE); 1 male, Ivimka Res. Station, Lakekamu Basin 120 m, 7��44���S 146��30E 24���Nov-1999 S.L. Heydon coll. CSCA11L041 (on slide, IZBE); 1 male, Madang Prov., Wanang Cons. Area, forest edge by oxbow pond, 80 masl, 5.2252��S 145.0813��E Malaise Trap, 18���22.xi.2015, coll. N. von Ellenrieder & R. W. Garrison, FFP15 PNG 14 (on slide, IZBE); 2 males, Madang Prov., Wanang Cons. Area, primary forest near Wanang 3 River, 86 masl, 5.2233��S 145.0793��E Malaise Trap, 17���22.xi.2015, coll. N. von Ellenrieder & R. W. Garrison, FFP15 PNG 07 (on slides, IZBE). Remarks. The species was originally described from the Palau Islands (Colless 1966) and has subsequently been recorded from several localities in Papua New Guinea (Kurina & Hippa 2015) and from Bacan Island, Maluku Utara, Indonesia (Hippa & Kurina 2018)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi, Hippa, Heikki & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, Notes on Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of two new species, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on page 391, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2624522, {"references":["Colless, D. H. (1966) Insects of Micronesia, Diptera: Mycetophilidae. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Insects of Micronesia, 12 (6), 637 - 667.","Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2015) A review of the South Pacific Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 4020 (2), 257 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4020.2.3","Kurina, O., Hippa, H. & Amorim, D. S. (2018) A contribution to the systematics of the genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4472 (1), 001 - 059. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4472.1.1"]}

Manota biunculata Hippa, 2007 Material. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 2 males, Madang Prov., Ohu Village Res., primary forest going down from Village to Wadub R., 124 masl, 5,2216��S 145,6804��E Malaise Trap, 15���27.xi.2015, coll. N. von Ellenrieder & R.W. Garrison, FFP15 PNG 06 (on slides, IZBE); 1 male, Gulf: Ivimka Res. Station, Lakekamu Basin 120m, 7��44���S 146��30E, 16���25.xi.1999, Malaise Trap, T.A. Sears coll., CSCA10L065 (on slide, IZBE). Remarks. This species is only known so far from Papua New Guinea (Kurina & Hippa 2015)., Published as part of Kurina, Olavi, Hippa, Heikki & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2019, Notes on Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea, with description of two new species, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 4555 (3) on page 391, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2624522, {"references":["Kurina, O. & Hippa, H. (2015) A review of the South Pacific Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 4020 (2), 257 - 288. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4020.2.3"]}