Paramblynotus antistatus, 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 : 67-68

Paramblynotus antistatus , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.1 mm. Body black to dark brown with antennae and legs yellow to yellow brown. Forewing brown in about basal two-thirds and clear beyond the tip of marginal cell.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum gradually expanded apically; median flagellomeres not constricted. Vertex largely glabrous with sparse punctures, slightly rugose laterally. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Distance between posterior ocelli 3.0 times as wide as the distance between posterior ocellus and eye. Ocellar plate not raised and not defined laterally by a carina; median frontal carina extended from anterior ocellus to slightly beyond lower margin of antennal sockets. Upper face, including antennal scrobe, coriarious; antennal scrobes only slightly depressed, defined by carina laterally. Lower face coriarious above and transversely rugose with foveae ventrally. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus glabrate and weakly longitudinally carinate. Gena coriarious. Lateral occipital carina indistinct beyond vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous. Submedian pronotal depressions distinctly separated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrate and coarsely punctate. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, not reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate-punctate and reaching to end of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posterior margin round in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and partly with white pubescence. Upper mesopleuron glabrous, distinctly depressed; speculum longitudinally carinate; median impression percurrent with three unevenly distributed transverse carinae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous; pubescence sparse above and dense ventrally. Metepisternum foveate-rugose, nude above and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Propodeum, including median propodeal area, areolate-reticulate; lateral and median propodeal carinae present only anteriorly; lateral propodeal carina with distinct pubescence dorsally. Nucha glabrous. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from close to posterior end of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.0 times as long as wide, and as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.3 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.3:1.0:2.0:1.1:0.4:0.4; T3–4 glabrous; T6–7 punctate; T7 of metasoma distinctly exposed; T8 punctate with a few foveae. 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 0.55.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus antistatus can be divided from the othe other species of the immaculatus clade by its distinctly exposed T7 of female metasoma and its smooth gena, except P. scalptus . However, P. antistatus differs from P. scalptus in having vertex and gena glabrous.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Namibia, Windhoek , Regenstein (15 mi SSW), 1972-IV-9 ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Namibia, Windhoek.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, anti-, against, and estat, position, standing. This name was coined because of the glabrous vertex and gena of this species, being in distinct contrast to the sculptured vertex and gena of the most similar species, P. scalptus .