Paramblynotus rwandensis, 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 : 60-61

Paramblynotus rwandensis , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.0 mm. Head, pronotum, mesoscutm, and mesoscutellum yellow brown; other part of mesosoma and metasoma dark brown to black. Antennal flagellum black; scape and pedicel yellow. Legs light yellow except metacoxa and femur dark. Wings completely clear. Head, mesosoma except mesopleuron, and legs except metafemoral grooves with rather dense silver hairs.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum slightly thicker apically; median flagellomeres constricted both proximally and apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye laterally distinctly extended beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by a carina lined by a row of foveae along interior side; ocellar plate foveate-reticulate. Upper face foveate/punctate laterally; antennal scrobe laterally defined by lateral carina, and mostly densely punctate and longitudinally carinate laterally and posteriorly. Median frontal carina absent. Lower face foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus foveate. Gena foveate-reticulate mostly and rugose vertically. Occiput glabrous with sparse pubescence.

Anterior flange of pronotum finely longitudinally carinate. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous anteriorly and densely punctate with pubescence posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially raised into a small triangular, apically rounded process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate; only distinctly present to anterior oneeighth of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum dorsally distinctly arched, foveate, and with foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina and two weaker submedian carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum areolate-reticulate; sloping posteriorly; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and with conspicuous gold-tinted pubescence. Upper mesopleuron, including speculum, glabrous with a few shallow setigerous punctures anteriorly; median impression percurrent, glabrous anteriorly, and with evenly spaced transverse carinae in posterior half. Metepisternum foveate-reticulate and nude above, with a small elevated glabrous area medially, and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and strongly curved medially; median propodeal area areolate-reticulate. Rs+M of forewing nebulous proximally, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.0 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.8 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–7: 1.8:1.0:1.2:3.0:1.2; T3–5 glabrous; T6 entirely finely punctate except anteriorly and with a row of setigerous punctures; T7 entirely punctate with narrow band of pubescence. T8 completely covered by T7. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa glabrous dorsally. Metatibia apically with four small, thin, apically pointed teeth. 1mt/ 2–5mt 5 0.85.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus rwandensis is similar to P. cameroonensis , but it can be distinguished from the latter by the following characters: antennal scrobes distinctly depressed; mesoscutum transversely costate with foveae set in between; head, pronotum, mesonotum, and mesoscutellum red brown; antenna black except basal two segments yellow; lateral occipital carinae not crestlike; and median propodeal area areolate-reticulate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Rwanda, Nyungwe Forest (2 ° 46 9 10 0 S, 29 ° 21 9 09 0 E, primary rainforest), 1993-IX-22–24, T. Munyampiwa coll. ( CNCI).

DISTRIBUTION: Rwanda.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after type locality.