Paramblynotus badius, 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 : 77-78

Paramblynotus badius , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.5 mm. Body, antenna, and hindleg entirely black to dark brown; fore- and middle legs yellow brown. Wings slightly ferruginous with marginal and submarginal cells of forewings darker.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate slightly raised, densely, coarsely punctate, and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina weakly present above antennal sockets. Upper face entirely punctate-foveate except antennal scrobe somewhat longitudinally carinate posteriorly; antennal scrobe slightly depressed and defined by carina laterally. Lower face foveate-punctate with transverse rugosity. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus indistinct. Clypeus longitudinally carinate and punctate posteriorly, transversely carinate medially, and glabrate-punctate anteriorly. Gena glabrate and punctate-foveate. Lateral occipital carina reaching vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrate, densely punctate with fine pubescence. Submedian pronotal depressions separated far apart medially. Pronotum dorsomedially distinctly raised, but lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest medially gradually raised into median peak. Lateral pronotal carina distinct and extended to reach pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum punctatefoveate with oblique carinate component posteromedially. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, reaching to one-third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum slightly arched dorsally and foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by median longitudinal carina and two submedian carinae; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate, with posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina, with conspicuous white pubescence. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, distinctly transversely costate; upper mesopleuron glabrous mostly except finely, densely punctate anteriorly; lower mesopleuron entirely glabrate and pubescent, and bordered by a distinct, straight carina ventrally. Metepisternum longitudinally costate and devoid of pubescence in upper part, conspicuously pubescent ven- trally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and curved medially; median propodeal area glabrate, median longitudinal carina present only anterior to median transverse carina. Nucha glarous. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.3 times as long as wide,and 1.5 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.3 times as long as wide in lateral view, lateroposterior margin broadly angular. Relative length of T3–8: 2.0:1.0:1.0:3.7:1.0:0.7; T3–5 glabrous; T6 glabrous anteriorly with a band of sparse pubescence, T7 with a medial band of sparse pubescence in punctures and densely and finely punctate posteriorly; T8 with a band of dense pubescence. Legs, particularly metatibia and metatarsomeres, densely pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia short, stout, and blunt apically.1mt/2–5mt 5 0.80.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus badius differs from all other species of the ruficollis group in having its pronotum anteromedially raised into gradual, rather conspicuous peak. The species can be further separated from the most similar species, P. trisectus , by having pronotum and mesothorax dark.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Sarawak, Mt. Dulit (1,000 ft, Moss Forest), 1932-X-16, native leg. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, coruscus , badius , brown or chestnut-colored. The name refers to its slightly ferruginous wings.