Paramblynotus liaoi, 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 : 46-47

Paramblynotus liaoi , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.5 mm. Body black entirely except antenna and legs dark brown, T3 ventrally brown. Wings transparent, slightly tinted yellow and more so in marginal and submarginal cells.

Upper face asperous laterally; antennal scrobe densely punctate and lightly longitudinally carinate posteriorly. Median frontal carina present between antennal sockets and bifurcated posteriorly to delimit a glabrous triangular area beneath anterior ocellus. Lower face and clypeus entirely foveate- to punctate-rugose. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Gena foveate-rugose. Vertex foveate-reticulate; foveae often partially fused with each other longitudinally. Occiput glabrous; sparsely punctate with pubescence.

Anterior flange of pronotum carinate longitudinally. Anterior plate of pronotum before lateral pronotal carinae coarsely and densely punctate with pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially prominently raised into a peak, in lateral view distinctly higher than the highest point of mesoscutum. Pronotal crest distinctly raised and medially with a distinct triangular emargination. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area transversely costate, reaching to end of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum, but becoming almost indistinguishable from lateral surface as dorsal pronotal carina diminishes posteriorly. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar foveae divided by submedian longitudinal carinae weaker than median carina. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; sloping posteriorly; dorsal surface of mesoscutellum obliquely flat in lateral view. Posterior margin of mesoscutellum rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle distinctly depressed and pubescent. Upper mesopleuron glabrous except foveate at most anterior part; speculum glabrous. Longitudinal mesopleural impression percurrent with several more or less evenly distributed transverse costae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous. Metanotal-propodeal complex foveate-rugose with dense pubescence except upper metepisternum glabrous. Lateral propodeal carina curved laterally; median propodeal area with two transverse carinae; median longitudinal carina bifurcated posteriorly (behind the 2nd transverse carina).

Abdominal petiole 0.6 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.8:1:1:2.5:1:0.8. T4–8 densely finely punctate; T6–8 also with a few slightly larger setigerous punctures set in one or two rows. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four slender, pointed teeth. 1mt/ 2–5mt 5 0.75.

DIAGNOSIS: The new species is similar to P. pronus , n.sp. but can be distinguished by the following characters: genae mostly foveate-rugose; mesoscutellum rounded posteriorly and without emargination; length of marginal cell 2.4 times width.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, China: Yunnan, Diqing, Chongjianghe (2300 m), 19984-VIII-4, D. Liao coll. ( ZICA).

DISTRIBUTION: China: Yunnan.

YANGAMBICOLUS GROUP

The species group is endemic to southern Africa.

DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS: Body size large to relatively small. Antenna filiform, distinctly enlarged toward apex, and sometimes with the apical segment compressed. Female antenna has 13 segments with F1 distinctly longer than F2. All flagellomeres have placodes, which are short, not as long as the segments, and are densely distributed on each medial to distal segment. Median frontal carina varies in strength. Ocellar plate not well defined laterally by a carina and hardly raised. Eyes not or moderately protruding laterally beyond genae. Occiput glabrous. Pronotal crest moderately raised dorsomedially into broad process. Lateral surfaces of pronotum evenly curved anteroventrally, foveate-reticulate without secondary transverse costae and punctures, and not separated dorsomedially by an extended, less sculptured anterior area. Lateral pronotal carinae weak, present only in ventral two-thirds. Mesoscutum coarsely foveate-reticulate with rough and discontinuous transverse carinae. Mesoscutellum either raised posteriorly and forming a flat dorsal surface and a vertical posterior surface or sloped posteriorly without a distinct pos- terior vertical surface. Scutellar sulcus divided into two foveae by median longitudinal carina. Axillar area without conspicuous hair tuft. Mesopleural triangle ventrally marked by a smoothly curved or slightly sinuated carina. Upper mesopleural area areolatereticulate to strongly carinate; speculum strongly or finely longitudinally carinate. Median mesopleural impression absent or present with multiple, equally strong vertical carinae in posterior half. Metepisternum irregularly foveate to areolate in upper half and pubescent ventrally. Dorsoapical dents of metatibia short and blunt; first metatarsomere without apical protuberance. Lateral propodeal carinae incomplete and not raised into strong keel or process; posterior half of propodeum including median propodeal area alveolate-reticulate. Metatarsomere 1 longer than the combined length of mt2–5. Metasoma strongly to moderately compressed laterally. Tergum 7 of female with posterior margin curved dorsolaterally, distinctly exposing T8, and T8 with sparse coarse punctures with hairs.