MYCETOPHILIDAE, , COLLESS & LIEPA, 1973

Papp, L., Merz, B. & Földvári, M., 2006, DIPTERA OF THAILAND A summary of the families and genera with references to the species representations, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 52 (2), No. 2, pp. 97-269 : 141

MYCETOPHILIDAE – MANOTINAE

We wholly accept those strong evidences, by which manotines are relegated to the family Mycetophilidae , as a subfamily. It is only for practical reasons, that I treat them in a separate paragraph. In 2004 we captured 49 manotine individuals. Much to our satisfaction, that includes those two species of Eumanota TUOMIKOSKI, 1966 , which SÖLI (2002) described from Thailand. All the other species belong to the genus Manota .

Eumanota racola SÖLI, 2002 – 2 m: PF04/35. It was described from Koh Ra. Our locality (Trang Prov., Palian District, Nam Tok Nam Pan Forest Park) is rather far from the type locality but we do not think manotine species distributions too restricted.

Eumanota suthepensis SÖLI, 2002 – 1 m: PF04/3 (Doi Suthep ); 1 m: PF04/7 (Doi Inthanon); one of them is its type locality, the other one is a similar mountainous area.

Manota spp. In contrast to Eumanota , and contrarily to the exceptional species diversity in the Oriental region, no comprehensive work on Manota has ever been published (H. HIPPA’ s paper on 27 new spp. from Malaysia is under publication). We captured and pinned 39 males and six females (two of them relegable to conspecific males), which represent 19 species (probably ten of them are new to science). H. HIPPA and the senior author plans to publish another paper on the SE Asian Manota . In advance, it seems that the following characters (other than those of the male genitalia) are useful to base practical groups of species: +/- long black postocular setae, ratio of visible sections of veins M1 and M2, length of 4th palpomere (and its ratio to the length of three basal palpomeres combined), extension of black colour on hind femur.