Paramblynotus coruscus, Liu, Ronquist & Nordlander, 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 : 78-79

Paramblynotus coruscus , new species

FEMALE: Length 5.0 mm. Body entirely black; antenna dark brown; legs red brown. Wings clear. Head and lateral pronotum very densely pubescent; anterior two-thirds of mesopleural triangle and lower part of metepisternum with conspicuous, long silvery pubescence.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, glabratefoveate, and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina weakly, briefly present posterior to antennal sockets. Upper face, including antennal scrobe, glabrate-foveate; antennal scrobe defined by carina laterally. Lower face, clypeus, and gena densely punctate and foveate with heavy pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits small. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus indistinct. Lateral occipital carina reaching vertex. Occiput glabrous medially and very finely transversely striate laterally.

Anterior flange of pronotum finely, transversely striate. Submedian pronotal depressions fused with each other medially and punctate. Anterior plate of pronotum densely punctate and pubescent. Pronotum dorsomedially distinctly raised, but lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest not raised medially. Lateral pronotal carina distinct and extended to reach pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate and punctate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous, reaching to one-third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum slightly arched dorsally, transversely costate with foveae set in rows, and glabrate medially and lateroposteriorly with the appearance of polished metal surface. Scutellar sulcus divided by median longitudinal carina and four submedian equally strong carinae; mesoscutellum glabrous-foveate, with posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, without transverse costae; upper mesopleuron glabrous, with setigerous punctures in anterior half; lower mesopleuron glabrous, and bordered by a distinct, straight carina ventrally. Metepisternum longitudinally costate and devoid of pubescence in upper part, conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and almost straight; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina percurrent, crossed by two transverse carinae. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.4 times as long as wide, and 1.5 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.33 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 2.0:1.0:1.3:5.3:0.9:1.8; T3–4 glabrous; T5 glabrous anteriorly and densely finely punctate posterirly; T6 glabrous anteriorly and

densely punctate posterirly; T7 coarsely punctate anteriorly and finely punctate posteriorly, with a patch of sparse pubescence lateroventrally; and T8 coarsely punctatefoveate with pubescence. Legs sparsely pubescent except metatibia and metatarsomeres densely so. Apical teeth of metatibia short, stout, and blunt apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.90.

MALE: Length 4.0 mm, otherwise similar to female.

The species is unique in all Paramblynotus species for the deductive nature of its sculptures, giving it the appearance of polished metal surface.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Laos: Ban Van Heue (20 km E Phou-kow-kuei), 1965-V-1–15, J. A. Rondon coll. ( BPBM). PARATYPES: 2♀♀, Burma: Yanaungmyin, Res. pyinmana, 1932-V-13, R. Hia Ogh coll. ( NHM).

BIOLOGICAL NOTES: The paratypes bear labels reading ‘‘ex Dalbergia fusca ’’.

DISTRIBUTION: Laos; Burma.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, coruscus , flashing, glimmering. The name refers to the polished sculpture of mesonotum of species.