Paramblynotus yuani, 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 : 102-103

Paramblynotus yuani , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.0 mm. Body light brown. Submedial pale ring of antenna consisting of F6–7. Flagellomeres beyond pale ring black, and all other segments brown. Forewing with a deep ferruginous macula covering marginal cell and part of third cubital cell behind marginal cell. Body parts, except as specified below, with moderately dense silvery pubescence.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye prominent and distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate slightly raised, foveate-reticulate, defined laterally by carina, and with a row of large foveae along lateral carinae. Median frontal carina raised into a lamilate, appically slightly flattened process, and percurrent to clypeus. Upper face foveate to foveate-reticulate; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, mostly foveate-reticulate and somewhat longitudinally rugose in lower part, and defined by distinct carina laterally. Gena rough foveate-reticulate. Lower face foveate-rugose and irregularly punctuate with sparse pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeus punctate with dense pubescence. Lateral occipital carina not reaching to posterior part of vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous; submedian pronotal depressions separated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous mostly and punctate dorsomedially. Pronotum dorsomedially not raised, distinctly lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest not raised into a median process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with pubescence and distinctly separated in the middle. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, narrow, but visible to end of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum strongly arched dorsally and heavily foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; laterodorsal process of mesoscutellum not prominent; posterior margin projected and medially emarginated in dorsal view. Pubescence in axillar area distinct but not conspicuous. Mesopleural triangle densely pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent with a few indistinct transverse costae; mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron strongly depressed along ventral margin and densely pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, dorsomedially strongly raised into, in lateral view, an apically broadly rounded triangular process and distinctly curved laterad; median propodeal area glabrate with sparse pubescence; median longitudinal carina distinct prior to prominent submedian transverse carina and replaced by two distinct longitudinal submedian carina. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.1 times as long as wide and slightly longer than submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.8 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 entirely covered by T7; relative length of T3–7::1.5:1.0:1.0:2.3:1.0; T3–5 glabrous; T6 finely punctuate with sparse pubescence; T7 finely punctate, with row of sparse pubescence anteriorly. Tibiae and tarsi conspicuously pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.65.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus yuani , P. stigi and P. filippae are different from all other species of the annulicornis species complex with their mesoscutellum raised and projected posteriorly, and posterior margin truncate or emarginate. P. yuani differs from P. stigi in that antennal scrobes not longitudinally carinate posteriorly, gena without a median glabrate area, and tergum 8 of female metasoma completely covered by T7, and from P. filippae in that antennal scrobes foveate and posterior margin of mesoscutellum emarginate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve , Negri S., 1979-IV- 2, P. & M. Becker coll. ( AEI).

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Negri S.

ETYMOLOGY: This species is named after Yuan Liu, son of Z.L.