Paramblynotus mixtus, Liu, Zhiwei, Ronquist, Fredrik & Nordlander, Göran, 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 : 48

Paramblynotus mixtus , new species

FEMALE: Length 4 mm. Body entirely dark; antennae and legs dark brown. Wings clear. 1tm/2–5tm 5 1.1.

Head, in profile, medially not distinctly raised anteriorly. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Median frontal carina low, dorsally slightly flattened, bifurcated posteriorly to delimit a glabrous triangular area below anterior ocellus, and ventrally extended in lower face to the level of lower margin of eye. Eye extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Upper face foveate laterally; antennal scrobe foveate rugose. Lower face and clypeus entirely foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus straight, not forming smoothly curved arch. Gena foveate-reticulate. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior plate of pronotum before lateral pronotal carinae densely punctate with pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially distinctly raised, in lateral view height as highest point of mesoscutum. Pronotal crest distinct and medially without emargination. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, nearly meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area foveate, reaching only to middle of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar foveae subdivided by submedian longitudinal carinae weaker than median carina. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; sloping posteriorly in lateral view; posterior margin round- ed in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally defined by a smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron irregularly foveolate-reticulate; median impression percurrent with several vertical carinae; speculum with distinct longitudinal carinae. Metanotal-propodeal complex coarsely foveate-rugose with dense pubescence except nude in upper metepisternum. Lateral propodeal carina indistinguishable except anteriorly; median propodeal area areolate/foveate-reticulate. Rs+M of forewing arising from basal vein at posterior third.

Abdominal petiole 0.4 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.7:1:1:0.9:0.15:0.4. T4–8 densely finely punctate; T8 also with a few slightly larger setigerous punctures set in one row. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four slender, pointed teeth. 1mt/2– 5mt 5 1.0.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus mixtus is distinctly different from the other two species of yangambicolus group in a number of characters. Antennae are not laterally compressed distally though enlarged toward apex; median frontal carina ventrally extended almost to clypeus in lower face. Antennal scrobe coarsely rugose. Eye prominent, protruding beyond gena. Mesoscutum anteriorly curved in lateral view; mesoscutellum sloped strongly posteriorly; mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by a smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron irregularly foveolate-reticulate; speculum with distinct and rather strong longitudinal carinae. Wings clear; marginal cell of forewing only slightly longer than submarginal cell. Metasoma oval in profile, almost as long as head and mesosoma combined; terga 3–6 subequal in size dorsally; metasomal sterna 4–6 entirely covered by sternum 3.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Kenya, Ukunda , 1968-I-24, K.V. Krombein coll. ( USNM).

DISTRIBUTION: Kenya: Ukunda.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, mixtus , mingled. The name describes the species’ possession of a number of obviously plesiomorphic characters that are more frequently found in the other species groups.