Abstract
A total of 15 species of Manota Williston, 1896 are recorded from Brunei, based on the investigations in 2013-2014. Thirteen species are recorded from Ulu Temburong National Park and three species from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam Campus in Tungku. Six species are described as new to science: Manota belalongensis sp. n., M. kaspraki sp. n., M. macrothrix sp. n., M. megachaeta sp. n. and M. pileata sp. n. from Ulu Temburong, and M. ricina sp. n. from Tungku. New records of the following species are given: Manota bifida Hippa & Papp, M. bruneiensis Hippa & Ševčík, M. hyboloma Hippa & Ševčík, M. oligochaeta Hippa, M. pappi Hippa, M. perangulata Hippa & Ševčík, M. pollex Hippa, M. procera Hippa and M. simplex Hippa.
Highlights
Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) represent one of the most abundant and diverse groups of insects in forest habitats, in both temperate and tropical regions
Within Sciaroidea, the family Mycetophilidae belongs to the most species rich groups, with some 4500 described species worldwide and possibly the same number of species still awaiting description
The predominantly tropical subfamily Manotinae form a rather uniform and well-defined group that has been proved to be monophyletic in studies based on both morphological (Hippa et al 2005) and molecular characters (Ševčík et al 2013)
Summary
Fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea) represent one of the most abundant and diverse groups of insects in forest habitats, in both temperate and tropical regions. Within Sciaroidea, the family Mycetophilidae belongs to the most species rich groups, with some 4500 described species worldwide and possibly the same number of species still awaiting description. Of the 4 genera included, only Manota Williston, 1896 is distributed worldwide with more than 200 described species (cf Hippa and Kurina 2012, 2013; Hippa and Ševčík 2013) and the number of undescribed species is difficult to estimate because Manota is considered as an open-ended taxon (see Bickel 2009). The species inventory of Manota in the Oriental Region during the past 10 years has raised the number of species from one (Senior-White 1922) to 89 (for a review of investigations see Hippa and Ševčík 2010, 2013)
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