Paramblynotus rufipes, 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 : 113-114

Paramblynotus rufipes , new species

FEMALE: Length 6.0 mm. Body almost entirely black except metasoma anteroventrally red brown. Antenna red brown. Legs red brown except metatarsi black. Wings transparent and slightly tinted. Body pubescence conspicuous and golden-tinted.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform, not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with dense pubescence. Eye prominent and distinctly extended laterally beyond out- er margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised, foveate-reticulate, and defined laterally by distinct carina lined by a row of large foveae; a small glabrous triangular area present beneath anterior ocellus. Median frontal carina only present as a raised lamilate process, semicirclar in lateral view and distinctly flattened dorsally, above antennal sockets. Upper face conspicuously pubescent entirely and punctate and foveate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed and densely punctate and defined by carina laterally. Gena, lower face, and clypeus densely punctate and sparsely foveate with very dense pubescence; anterior tentorial pits small; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum finely longitudinally striate, submedian pronotal depressions separated far from each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum densely finely punctate and pubescent. Pronotum dorsomedially raised, slightly higher than mesoscutum; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a small peak. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate and conspicuously pubescent. Dorsal pronotal area superficially transversely striate, present only along anterior fourth 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 and four strong submedian longitudinal carinae. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posterior margin raised and projected with small median emargination posteriorly. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent and glabrate with three transverse carinae in anterior half; upper mesopleuron glabrous except sparsely punctate anteriorly; speculum sparsely punctate; and lower mesopleuron glabrous and pubescent. Metepisternum longitudinally carinaterugose in upper part, pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, strongly raised dorsolaterally into a large, lobular process with very dense pubescence; median propodeal area glabrous; median longitudinal carina present anterior to submedian transverse carina; two curved longitudinal carinae present posteriorly, each with a lateral transverse costa at middle point connecting to lateral propodeal carina. Rs+M of fore- wing arising from anterior third of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.75 times as long as wide and 1.7 as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.50 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 distinctly exposed; relative length of T3–8: 1.8:1.0:1.0:1.5:0.8:1.3; T3–4 glabrous with a few setigerous punctures; T5 punctate dorsolaterally, punctures coarse and sparse dorsoanteriorly; T6 with a large patch of conspicuous pubescence and finely punctate lateroventrally; T7 with a patch of conspicuous pubescence dorsolaterally and finely punctate lateroventrally; and T8 pubescent. Apical teeth of metatibia short and blunt apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 1.1.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus rufipes is most similar to P. chrysochaites , differing from the latter in (1) process of median frontal carina distinctly flattened dorsally; pubescence of axillar area not extended to cover part of scutellar sulcus; mesoscutellum with only a small emargination posteriorly; pubescence on pronotum and T6–8 less dense and shorter; the patch of pubescence on T6–8 covers only posterior one-fifth of postpetiolar metasoma; and T6 shorter than T3.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Laos: Wapikhamthong Prov. , Wapi, 1967-V-31, Native Collector ( BPBM).

DISTRIBUTION: Laos.

ETYMOLOGY: The species name is derived from Latin, rufus, red, reddish, and pes, foot, referring to the species’ reddish legs.