Paramblynotus fucosus, Liu, Ronquist & Nordlander, 2007

Liu, Zhiwei, Ronquist, Fredrik & Nordlander, Göran, 2007, The Cynipoid Genus Paramblynotus: Revision, Phylogeny, And Historical Biogeography (Hymenoptera: Liopteridae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2007 (304), pp. 1-151 : 129-130

Paramblynotus fucosus , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.2 mm. Body, antenna, and legs entirely black. Wings trans- parent, without any marking. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.

Antenna 13-segmented, flagellum filiform, not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with distinct longitudinally carinate component. Eye expanded laterally, slightly beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, glabrate and longitudinally carinate, and defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina distinct between antennal sockets. Upper face longitudinally carinate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed and distinctly defined by carina laterally, longitudinally carinate lateroposteriorly, and glabrous anterorly. Gena glabrous and finely punctate, and with dense pubescence in posterior upper part; lower face and clypeus glabrate with fine longitudinal carination and finely punctate with dense appressed pubescence; anterior tentorial pits small and distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a superficial trapezoid. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate medially and glabrous laterally.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous; submedian pronotal depressions separated medially; anterior pronotal plate glabrous medially and finely densely punctate with appressed pubescence (more so laterally). Pronotum raised dorsomedially; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak, slightly not as high as mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carina indistinct, present in lower two-thirds along posterior margin of anterior pronotal plate. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with weak transverse costae, and distinctly pubescent in upper half, and glabrous and finely punctate ventrally. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present along anterior two-thirds of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum almost flat dorsally, except slightly inclined anteriorly, and transversely costate with superficial foveae set in rows and with sparse, evenly distributed appressed pubescence. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate and broadly rounded posteriorly in dorsal view; lateral dorsal process indistinct in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent with a narrow, hairless strip above the smoothly curved carina delimiting the triangle. Median mesopleural impression percurrent and glabrate with apparent transverse carinae. Upper and lower mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron also pubescent in ventral impression. Metepisternum conspicuously pubescent entirely. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent, distinctly divergent posteriorly, and strongly raised dorsally to form in the middle a distinct triangular process; median propodeal area conspicuously pubescent anteriorly and glabrous posteriorly; median longitudinal carina anterior to the median transverse carina barely visible due to conspicuous pubescence. Rs+M of forewing distinct except slightly nebulous in basal third, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.5 times as long as wide and 1.7 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.40 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 completely covered by T7; relative size of abdominal T3–7: 2.3:1.0:1.2.:3.8:1.4; T3 glabrous; T4–5 glabrous and finely punctate dorsally; T6 finely and densely punctate dorsolaterally, with a single row of pubescence in the middle; T7 punctate with pubescence dorsolaterally in anterior third and glabrous posteriorly. Apical teeth of metatibia slender and pointed apically. Apical process of first metatarsomeres reaching to two-thirds of second metatarsomere.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus fucosus is unique among all Paramblynotus species for its very conspicuous patch of silvery hairs covering the metepisternum and propodeum, its evenly ferruginous wings, and its relatively long apical process of first metatarsomeres.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Papua New Guinea: Bulolo Dist. , 1982, H. Roberts coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, fucosus , colored, painted. The name refers to the ferruginous wings of the species.