Paramblynotus axeli, 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 : 110-111

Paramblynotus axeli , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.1 mm. Body dark brown. Submedial pale ring of antenna consists of F7–8. Flagellomeres basal to F6–7 brown and distal to F6–7 black to dark 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, not defined laterally by distinct carina, surface obliquely striate prior to anterior ocellus and foveate posteriorly. Median frontal carina raised into a lamilate process, and percurrent to clypeus. Upper face foveate to foveate-reticulate; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, glabrate with moderately dense and fine punctures, and defined by distinct carina laterally. Gena strongly foveate-reticulate with sparse long pubescence. Lower face foveate-reticulate and irregularly punctuate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeus punctate/foveatereticulate. Lateral occipital carina not reaching posterior part of vertex. Occiput mostly foveate-reticulate with very lower part glabrate.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrate with superficial punctures; submedian pronotal depressions separated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous 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, only visible as a crescent area anteriorly. 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 not projected. Pubescence in axillar area distinct but not conspicuous. Mesopleural triangle densely pubescent, well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression straight and percurrent, with a many 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, dorsomedially strongly raised and distinctly curved laterad; median propodeal area glabrate with sparse pubescence; median longitudinal carina purcurrent, but weak, especially posteriorly, and submedian transverse carina prominent. Rs+M of forewing arising from posterior third of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.0 times as long as wide and almost as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole distinctly longitudinally carinate and 1.5 times as long as wide in dorsal view. Tergum 8 entirely covered by T7; relative length of T3–7: 1.9:1.0:1.3:1.8:1.3; T3–5 glabrous; T6 finely punctate with scattered long pubescence; T7 densely and 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 0.67.

MALE: Body length 3.5 mm. Antenna 14-segmented. T3 and T5 distinctly larger than the other terga.

Paramblynotus axeli is unique among species of the annulicornis complex by having Rs+M of forewing arising from posterior third of basal vein. It is more similar to P. asae than to the other soecies of the complex, but it can be distinguished from P. asae by the following additional characters: antennal scrobes densely, but finely punctate, triangular ocellar plate not defined by lateral carinae, median frontal carina not forming a dorsally flattened process between antennal sockets, and occiput mostly foveate-reticulate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Indonesia: Sumatra, Aceh Gunung Leucer National Park, Ketambe Research Station (3 ° 41 9 N, 97 ° 39 9 E, 400 m, 1 ° Rain Forest, Mature Forest, Terrace 4, Closed canopy), Malaise Trap with pan, 1989-XI-1–30, D.C. Darling coll., IIS 890012 ( ROM). PARATYPE: 1Oi, 1990-III-1–31, 900022, other data as Holotype.

DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Sumatra.

ETYMOLOGY: This species is named after Axel Ronquist, son of F.R.