Paramblynotus claripennis, 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 : 55-56

Paramblynotus claripennis , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.0 mm. Head and mesosoma black; antenna and metasoma light brown; legs dark brown. Wings entirely transparent with marginal cell slightly ferruginous.

Antenna 12-segmented. Vertex entirely longitudinally carinate with foveae set between the carinae. Eye prominent, laterally extended much beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by a carina lined along interior side by a row of irregular foveae. Upper face asperous laterally; antennal scrobe longitudinally carinate posteriorly and glabrous anteriorly, and laterally defined by lateral carinae; lateral carinae delimiting ocellar plate extended beyond lower margin of antennal sockets. Median frontal carina present briefly. Lower face roughly foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Clypeus longitudinally rugose. Gena horizontally carinate-rugose with foveae. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior plate of pronotum coarsely punctate with pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially raised into a small, triangular process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, not reaching pronotal crest. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with secondary transverse carination. Dorsal pronotal area foveate, narrowing posteriorly and present along whole length of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum foveatereticulate, foveae set in rows between irregular transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median and several submedian longitudinal carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum areolate-reticulate; sloping gradually posteriorly, but less so posteromedially. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron coarsely punctate in anterior half; median longitudinal impression percurrent with evenly spaced transverse carinae; speculum glabrous. Metanotal-propodeal complex areolate-punctate-rugose with metepisternum largely areolate-reticulate, and densely pubescent in lower part. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, slightly curved medially; median propodeal carina percurrent; median propodeal area otherwise areolate-reticulate. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.0 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.5 times as long as wide in lateral view. Posterior margin of T7 of metasoma only slightly concave, only exposing T8 as a small triangle. Relative length of T3–8: 2.0:1.0:1.0:4.0:1.0:0.8; T3–5 glabrous; T6 very finely punctate posterior on half and glabrous anteriorly; T7–8 densely punctate; T6–8 also with small cluster of larger setigerous punctures. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except femora sparsely so and metacoxa dorsally glabrous.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus claripennis differs from all othe other species of the P. nigricornis clade except P. nigricornis by its entirely clear wings. It can be further distinquished from P. nigricornis by its entirely carinate vertex, 12-segmented antenna with apical flagellomere more than twice as long as the subapical, and median triangular process raised from pronotal crest.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Uganda, Mpanga , 1960-V-20, K.W. Brown coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Uganda: Mpanga.

BIOLOGY: Collection label with the holotype reads ‘‘ex Coleoptera’’.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, claro, bright, and penna, wing. The name describes its entirely transparent wings.