Paramblynotus townesorum, 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 : 57-58

Paramblynotus townesorum , new species

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

Antenna 12-segmented. Vertex foveate-reticulate with indistinct subordinate longitudinal carinate component. Eye prominent, laterally extended beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined later- ally by a carina; lateral carina delimiting ocellar plate extended to lower margin of antennal sockets and lined by a row of foveae along interior side; ocellar plate longitudinally carinate with a few sacttered foveae before to anterior ocellus and foveate posteriorly. Upper face shagreened laterally; antennal scrobe longitudinally carinate posteriorly and glabrate anteriorly, and defined laterally by a carina. Median frontal carina present very briefly below lower margin of antennal sockets and posteriorly bifurcated to seclude a small, glabrous triangular area beneath anterior ocellus. Lower face coarsely foveatepunctate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Clypeus transversely carinate and punctate. Gena longitudinally rugose and densely punctate-foveate. Occiput mostly obliquely carinate and glabrous only medially.

Anterior flange of pronotum very finely transversely carinate. Submedian pronotal depressions large, medially partially fused. Anterior plate of pronotum coarsely punctate with pubescence; punctures set in rows. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially raised into a small, apically rounded triangular process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area coarsely foveate, indistinctly transversely carinate; complete along whole length of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum, narrowing posteriorly; delimited from lateral surface by a distinct carina only in posterior half. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate, with short, indistinct transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by several longitudinal carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum areolate-reticulate and transversely costate; sloping posteriorly; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina. Upper mesopleuron foveoate anteriorly and glabrous posteriorly; speculum glabrous; median impression percurrent with evenly spaced transverse carinae. Metanotal-propodeal complex areolate-rugose; metepisternum areolate-reticulate and nude above and densely pubescent ventrally; propodeum densely pubescent. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, slightly curved medially; median propodeal area foveate-punctate with a percurrent median longitudinal carina. Rs+M of forewing distinct, arising from posterior twofifths of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.4 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 present.

Abdominal petiole 0.8 times as long as wide in lateral view. Posterior margin of T7 of metasoma slightly concave, exposing T8 as a small triangle. Relative length of T3–8: 2.2:1.0:1.0:3.0:0.8:0.3; T3–4 glabrous; T5–7 very finely punctate; T6 aslo with a row of sparse pubescence; T7–8 sparsely pubescent entirely. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four slender, apically pointed teeth. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.75.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus townesorum is unique among the species of the trisetosus group in having occiput mostly obliquely carinate. It is similar to P. nigricornis , but it can be further separated from the latter by having 12- segmented antenna in female and ferruginous marginal cell in forewing.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, South Africa: Port St. Johns , 1970-XII-12, H. and M. Townes, deposited in the American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, FL ( AEI).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa: Port St. Johns.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the collectors of the species, the late Hymenoptera taxonomist Henry Townes and M. Townes.