Paramblynotus lutepennis, 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 : 114-115

Paramblynotus lutepennis , new species

FEMALE: Length 6.5 mm. Body almost entirely black except postpetiolar metasoma red brown basally. Antenna and legs black, tarsi of legs brown. Wings transparent and slightly yellow-tinted. Body pubescence golden-tinted.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform, not distinctly expanded toward apex. Vertex foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Eye slightly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised, foveate-reticulate, with a row of large foveae, and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina present only between antennal sockets. Upper face foveate-reticulate to foveate-rugose and pubescent entirely; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed and defined by a carina laterally. Gena glabrous and coarsely punctate. Lower face foveate-reticulate with dense appressed pubescence, clypeus densely punctate and pubescent; anterior tentorial pits small and close to each other; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not reaching posterior part of vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate medially and glabrous laterally.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrate with apparent, fine striation; submedian pronotal depressions separated from each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous and densely finely punctate with conspicuous pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially raised, slightly higher than mesoscutum; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a distinct peak. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate and pubescent. Dorsal pronotal area long, superficially transversely striate, present only along anterior one-fifth of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum flat dorsally and transversely costate with superficial foveae set in rows. Scutellar sulcus divided by a median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; lateral dorsal process prominent and lobular; posterior margin of mesoscutellum rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent and glabrate; upper and lower mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron densely pubescent in ventral depression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part, pubescent ventrally, and with a small elevated glabrous area posteromedially. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, strongly raised dorsomedially into broad triangle in lateral view and densely pubescent; median propodeal area pubescent; and median longitudinal carina percurrent, crossed by a submedial transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.5 times as long as wide and almost as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.60 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 completely covered by T7; relative length of T3–7: 2.0:1.0:1.2:2.6:1.1; T3–5 glabrous; T6–7 densely punctate; T6 with a small patch of sparse pubescence dorsolaterally; and T7 with a band of sparse pubescence dorsolaterally. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. first metatarsomeres with an apical protuberance extending to five-sixths of second metatarsomeres. 1mt (excluding apical process)/2–5mt 5 0.6.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus lutepennis is most similar to P. obscurus , but it differs from the latter in having distal protuberance of first metatarsomere long, reaching almost to the end of second tarsomere.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Sabah, Sipitang, Mendolong , 1987-XII- 12, S. Adebratt coll. ( ZMLU).

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Sabah.

ETYMOLOGY: The species name is derived from Latin luteus, yellow, and penna, wing, describing the species’ yellowish tint of the wings.