Paramblynotus diminutus, 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 : 70-71

Paramblynotus diminutus , new species

MALE: Length 1.6 mm. Head and mesothorax black, and the rest of the body brown. Forewings basal to tip of submarginal cell evenly grayish ferruginous and distally clear.

Antenna 14-segmented, filiform, with the third (F1) lateroventrally sinuated; median flagellomeres not constricted. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Distance between posterior ocelli nearly 4.5 times as wide as the distance between posterior ocellus and eye. Ocellar plate not raised, not defined laterally by a carina; median frontal carina indistinctly present between antennal sockets. Vertex coriarious with sparse punctures and fine pubescence. Upper face, including antennal scrobe and ocellar plate, and lower face coriarious with very fine pubescence. Antennal scrobe only slightly depressed and defined by weak carina laterally. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus indistinct, forming an arch. Clypeus glabrous and punctate. Gena cariarious. Malar space horizontally weakly carinate. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous. Submedian pronotal depressions fused with each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum coriarious, sparsely punctate posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching to pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum coarsely foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area reaching end of posterior margin of pronotum and with closely arranged punctures in a single row. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally, and foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and with conspicuous white pubescence. Upper mesopleuron glabrous; speculum longitudinally carinate; and median longitudinal impression percurrent with reduced transverse carinae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous, pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum irregularly foveate-reticulate, nude above and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum foveate-rugose laterally. Lateral propodeal carinae straight and parallel. Median propodeal area with straight median longitudinal carina crossed by one straight transverse carina. Nucha glabrous. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from close to posterior end of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.4 times as long as wide and slightly longer than submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent. M vein nebulous.

Abdominal petiole 0.5 times as long as wide in lateral view. T5 of metasoma is the largest tergum, dorsally not much longer than either T4 or T6, but ventrolaterally conspicuously expanded anteriorly and distinctly larger than the other terga. Posterior margin of T3–4 oblique in lateral view, and the same part of T5–7 vertical with slight sinuation medially. All legs sparsely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous and metatibia and metatarsomeres densely pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia long, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.54.

FEMALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus diminutus is similar to P. angolensis and P. antistatus , but it differs from the latter two species in (1) lateral

propodeal carinae straight and percurrent, (2) medial propodeal area with one straight and percurrent longitudinal carina, and (3) median frontal carina almost invisible.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: Oi , Zimbabwe, Salisbury, 1970-X-23, A. Watsham coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Zimbabwe, Salisbury.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, deminuo, lessen, describing the relatively smaller size in comparison with othe other species of the clade.