Paramblynotus samiatus, 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 : 54-55

Paramblynotus samiatus , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.8 mm. Head and mesosoma dark; antenna, legs, and metasoma dark brown. Wings transparent; forewing with marginal and submarginal cells ferruginous.

Vertex foveate-reticulate and longitudinally carinate. Eye prominent, laterally extended much beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by an irregular carina lined along interior side by a row of irregular foveae. Upper face punctate-rugose laterally; antennal scrobe mostly longitudinally carinate and glabrous anteriorly, and laterally defined by a carina. Median frontal carina absent. Lower face entirely foveate-reticulate with pubescence and longitudinally carinate. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Clypeus diagonally carinate. Gena glabrate-foveate and horizontally rugose in middle third. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior plate of pronotum foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially raised into a small, triangular process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, continuous dorsomedially, but not reaching pronotal crest. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area weakly carinate diagonally, narrowing posteriorly to reach to about two-thirds of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate, foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median and two submedian longitudinal carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; sloping gradually posteriorly. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron glabrous; median longitudinal impression percurrent with evenly spaced transverse carinae; speculum glabrous. Metanotal-propodeal complex areolate-punctate-rugose with metepisternum distinctly longitudinally rugose in upper part. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, smoothly curved medially; median longitudinal propodeal carina percurrent and crossed by two transverse carinae. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from basal vein at anterior third. Marginal cell 2.0 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 present.

Abdominal petiole 0.5 times as long as wide in lateral view. Posterior margin of T7 of metasoma only slightly concave, exposing T8 as a small triangle. Relative length of T3–8: 1.5:1:1.3:3.0:0.6:0.4; T4 sparsely finely punctate; T5–8 densely finely punctate; T6–8 also with a band of larger setigerous punctu-

res. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except femora sparsely so and metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four slender, apically pointed teeth. 1mt/2– 5mt 5 0.65.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus samiatus differs from all othe other species of the P. nigricornis clade in that its upper mesopleuron is entirely glabrous.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, South Africa, Zululand , Eshowe, 1925-IV-1–22, R.E. Turner coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa: Zululand.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, samio, to polish. The name is coined to describe the glabrous nature of its upper mesopleuron.