Paramblynotus barbarae, 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 : 101

Paramblynotus barbarae , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.5–4.0 mm. Body entirely brown. Antenna dark brown with submedial pale ring consisting of F6–7. Forewing with a deep ferruginous macula covering marginal cell and the part of third cubital cell behind the marginal cell. Body parts, except as specified below, with moderately dense silvery pubescence.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform. Vertex heavily foveate-reticulate. Eye prominent and distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate slightly raised, foveate-reticulate, and defined laterally by weak, irregular carina. Median frontal carina simple, indistinct beyond lower margin of antennal sockets. Upper face foveatereticulate; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, glabrate with dense fine punctures, and defined by distinct carina laterally. Gena foveate-reticulate and densely pubescent. Lower face and clypeus foveate-rugose; clypeus with dense long pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Lateral occipital carina not quite reaching posterior part of vertex. Occiput glabrous, anteriorly separated from vertex by an irregular transverse carina.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous; submedian pronotal depressions separated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous, finely punctate dorsomedially. Pronotum dorsomedially not raised, distinctly lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest not raised medially. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially, and distinctly separating lateral surface of pronotum in the middle. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with dense pubescence. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present to anterior two-thirds of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum strongly arched dorsally and foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina. Mesoscutellum foveatereticulate; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Pubescence in axillar area distinct but not conspicuous. Mesopleural triangle densely pubescent, well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, not transversely costate; mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron distinctly depressed along ven- tral margin, and sparsely pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, slightly raised anterodorsally, and distinctly curved laterad submedially; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina percurrent; submedian transverse carina distinct or not, always preceded by an additional transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.2 times as long as wide and slightly shorter than submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.6 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 slightly exposed; relative length of T3–7: 1.6:1.0:0.9:1.6:0.9; T3–5 glabrous; T6 finely punctate with sparse pubescence; T7 finely punctate, with a band of sparse pubescence anteriorly. Tibia and tarsi conspicuously pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.63.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus barbarae differs from the other species of the annulicornis complex in having median frontal carina not extended beyond antennal sockets and vertex foveatereticulate entirely.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Negri S., Posah Forest Reserve (primary forest), 1978-XII-5, P. and M. Becker coll. ( AEI). PARATYPE: 1♀, 1979-VIII-14, other data as holotype ( AEI).

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: This species is named after Dr. Barbara Ekbom for her kind support and moral encouragement of the study.