Paramblynotus carinatus, 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 : 65-66

Paramblynotus carinatus , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.2 mm. Body entirely dark brown; legs yellow. Wings clear.

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; median frontal carina distinct in lower face, reaching to epistomal sulcus and bifurcated poster- iorly to delimit a glabrous triangular area beneath anterior ocellus. Upper face glabrate laterally and antennal scrobes glabrous; antennal scrobe defined by carina laterally. Lower face coarsely foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form a smoothly curved arch. Clypeus longitudinally carinate anteriorly, glabrous in the middle, and foveate-rugose posteriorly. Gena coarsely foveate-rugose. Lateral occipital carina almost meeting eye dorsally. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrate. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous and sparsely punctate anteriorly. 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 foveate-reticulate dorsolaterally and longitudinally carinate lateroventrally. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous, reaching end of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and foveatereticulate with indistinct transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina and two submedian longitudinal carinae; 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 distributed transverse carinae; lower mesopleuron glabrous and pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum foveate-reticulate and nude above, with an elevated glabrous area medially, and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and distinctly curved medially. Median propodeal area glabrate to rugulose; median longitudinal carina percurrent, a transverse carina present anteriorly, and two submedian longitudinal carinae present posterior to transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.4 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.6 times as long as wide in lateral view and glabrate dorsally. Relative length of T3–7: 1.7:1.0:1.0:2.5:1.1; T3–5 glabrous; T6 finely punctate with a few setigerous punctures in a row; T7 punctate with a row of setigerous punctures. T8 entirely covered by 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 long, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.60.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus carinatus is similar to P. kekenboschi and P. zairensis , but it can be easily separated from them by (1) median frontal carina distinct in lower face, extending beyond lower margin of eyes reaching epistomal sulcus; and (2) ocellar plate with a row of relatively uniform large foveae along lateral carina.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Zaire, P.N.A., Nyasheke , Volley Nyamuragia (1,820 m), 1935-VI-14–26, G.F. de Witte coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Zaire.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, carina, keel. The species name describes the carinate sculpture on the vertex.