Paramblynotus shimenensis, 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 : 104-105

Paramblynotus shimenensis , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.5 mm. Body entirely dark brown. Submedial pale ring of antenna consisting of F6–7, F8–11 almost black, and all other segments dark brown. Forewing with a deep ferruginous macula covering marginal cell and the 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, glabrate anteriorly, foveate posterior to anterior ocellus, and with a row of indistinctly defined foveae along interior side. Median frontal carina complete to clypeus and raised into a distinct lamilate process between antennal sockets. Upper face foveate-rugose; antennal scrobe defined by distinct carina laterally, distinctly depressed, and glabrate and finely punctate with apparent fine longitudinal striation. Gena areolate/foveate-reticulate with a median vertical carina. Lower face and clypeus foveate-rugose. Anterior tentorial pits indistinct. Lateral occipital carina reaching posterior part of vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum transversely striate; submedian pronotal depressions sep- arated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous, finely sparsely punctate dorsomedially. Pronotum dorsomedially not raised, distinctly lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest not raised into a median process. Lateral pronotal carinae distinct and reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially; lateral surface of pronotum distinctly separated in the middle. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present to anterior third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum strongly arched dorsally and heavily foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina. Mesoscutellum foveatereticulate; laterodorsal process of mesoscutellum smoothly curved lateroposteriorly to posterior margin of mesoscutellum; posterior margin broadly 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, with two more or less distinct 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, distinctly raised dorsally throughout and slightly curved laterad in posterior half; median propodeal area glabrate with sparse pubescence; median longitudinal carina present anteriorly only, submedian transverse carina prominent, and two submedian longitudinal carinae present posteriorly. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.7 times as long as wide and slightly longer than submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc + R 1 absent.

Petiole 1.1 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 completely hidden beneath T7; relative length of T3–7: 2.0:1.0:1.2:2.5:1.2; T3–5 glabrous; T6 finely punctate with single row of pubescence; T7 finely punctate, with a band of sparse pubescence anteriorly. Tibiae and tarsi conspicuously pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. 1mt/ 2–5mt 5 0.56.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus shimenensis differs from all other species of annulicornis species complex by combination of the following characters: (1) median frontal carina raised into a distinct lamilate process between antennal sockets and complete to clypeus, (2) gena areolate/ foveate-reticulate with a median vertical carina, and (3) T6 longer than T3.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, China: Hunan, Shimen, Jiangping, Xiaoxi (1,470 m, mixed evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved forest), 1992-VIII-16–IX-15, F. Du and Z. Liu coll. ( ZICA).

DISTRIBUTION: China: Hunan.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the type locality.