Paramblynotus jacksoni, 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 : 64-65

Paramblynotus jacksoni , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.5–3.3 mm. Body entirely black except antenna dark brown and legs yellow.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum not distinctly thicker apically; median flagellomeres constricted proximally and apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with distinct longitudinal carinate component. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by a carina; lateral carina of ocellar plate meeting medially above antennal sockets and lined by a row of irregular foveae along interior side; ocellar plate foveate. Upper face, including antennal scrobes, glabrate and finely punctate, weakly carinate in upper part; antennal scrobe defined by carina laterally. Median frontal carina absent or weakly present in upper half of lower face. Lower face heavily foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits indistinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus rugose anteriorly and foevate-reticulate posteriorly. Gena foveate-rugose with long pubescence. Lateral occipital carina very developed. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum finely longitudinally carinate. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous and sparsely punctate anteriorly, and coarsely punctate posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate except ventral one-fourth longitudinally carinate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous, only visible until anterior fourth of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and strongly foveate-reticulate with indistinct transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate and sloped posteriorly; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and with white pubescence. Upper mesopleuron, including speculum, glabrous; median longitudinal impression percurrent with evenly distribut- ed, reduced transverse carinae; lower mesopleuron glabrous and pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum foveate-reticulate and nude above, with a small elevated glabrous area medially, and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and not obviously curved. Median propodeal area glabrate and sparsely punctate; median longitudinal carina percurrent and with a transverse carina anteriorly. Rs+M of forewing distinct and yellow, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.7 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 weakly present.

Abdominal petiole 0.7 times as long as wide in lateral view and glabrate dorsally. Relative length of T3–7: 1.6:1.0:1.0:4.0:1.1; T3–5 glabrous; T6 glabrous except for setigerous punctures in a row; T7 punctate with a few setigerous punctures in a row. T8 slightly exposed beneath T7. Front and middle legs sparsely punctate with pubescence; hindlegs sparsely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous and metatibia and metatarsomeres densely punctate with pubescence. Apical teeth of metatibia small, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2– 5mt 5 0.55.

MALE: Length 2.2–3.0 mm. Antenna 14- segmented. Tergum 5 expanded both dorsally and ventrally, but more so ventrally.

Paramblynotus jacksoni is similar to P. cameroonenesis and P. rwandensis , but it differs from the latter two species in (1) median frontal carina not distinctly extending in lower face, (2) head and mesosoma black, and (3) Rs and Rs+M veins of forewing distinct and brown. It further differs from P. cameroonenesis in having longer petiole, and from P. rwandensis in having median propodeal area glabrate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Cameroon: Nkoemvon , 1980-XI-2–XII-13, D. Jackson coll. ( NHM). PARATYPES: 4♀♀, 2 OiOi: 1 Oi, 1978-IX–XI, other data same as holotype ( NHM) ; 1♀, 1979-VII–VIII, and 3♀♀, 1Oi, 1980-XI–XII, other data same as holotype ( NHM) .

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon.

BIOLOGY: Collection label reads (collect- ed along) ‘‘forest path’’, otherwise unknown.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the collector.