Paramblynotus yangambicolus ( Benoit, 1956 )

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 : 49

Paramblynotus yangambicolus ( Benoit, 1956)

FEMALE: Length 6–9 mm. Head, antennae, mesosoma, and legs black; metasoma pale yellow. Wings ferruginous with marginal cell somewhat darker. 1mt/2–5mt 5 1.4.

Head, in profile, medially distinctly raised anteriorly. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Median frontal carina simple and present only between upper margin of antennal sockets to anterior ocellus. Eye laterally not extended beyond outer margin of gena. Upper face glabrous-punctate laterally; antennal scrobe longitudinally carinate. Lower face entirely foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits indistinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus straight, not forming smoothly curved arch. Clypeus rugose. Gena foveate-reticulate and vertically rugose. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum longitudinally carinate; anterior plate of pronotum glabrate anteriorly and punctate/foveate with pubescence posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially distinctly raised, in lateral view distinctly higher than highest point of mesoscutum. Pronotal crest prominent and medially without emargination. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, not reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate, with slightly glabrate posterior area. Dorsal pronotal area distinctly present only to posterior two-thirds of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum and distinctly transversely carinate anteriorly (carination faint posteriorly). Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar foveae not subdivided by submedian longitudinal carinae. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posteriorly raised and projected into a truncate lamella with a slight emargination in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally defined by a rather smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron longitudinally carinate; median impression at least partly absent; speculum finely longitudinally carinate. Metanotalpropodeal complex coarsely foveate-rugose with dense pubescence. Lateral propodeal carina distinct anteriorly and inseparable from the longitudinal carinae posteriorly; median propodeal area areolate-reticulate, with a distinct transverse carina across mid- dle. Rs+M of forewing arising from basal vein at middle.

Abdominal petiole 0.3 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.5:1:1:1.8:0.5:0.25. 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 stout, pointed teeth. 1mt/ 2–5mt 5 1.5.

MATERIALS EXAMINED: 6♀♀: MRAC, 1♀ (T) ; NHM, 5♀♀.

DISTRIBUTION: Zaire:Yangambi; Uganda: Mpanga, Itwala Forest, and Kawanda.

BIOLOGY: Benoit (1956) stated in his original description of the species that the holotype was captured on a dead tree trunk of Drypetes gossweileri , which belongs to Euphorbiaceae . The two specimens from Mpanga, Uganda, bear labels reading ‘‘Lepidoptera’’; the two specimens from Itwala Forest, Uganda, bear labels reading ‘‘ex. Coleoptera’’.