Paramblynotus distinctus, 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 : 119-120

Paramblynotus distinctus , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.5 mm. Head yellow brown; rest of body, antenna, and legs dark brown. Wings transparent.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum distinctly widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, mostly glabrate-foveate, and defined laterally by carina lined along interior side with a row of large, superficial foveae, and with a small glabrous area beneath anterior ocellus. Median frontal carina present only between antennal sockets, raised dorsally into a ridge. Upper face superficially foveate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, glabrous, and defined by weak carina laterally. Gena with a row of large foveae along eye margin, otherwise glabrous with sparse punctures and pubescence; lower face and clypeus foveate/punctate-reticulate; anterior tentorial pits distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate medially and glabrous laterally. Anteri- or flange of pronotum glabrous, submedian pronotal depressions separated medially.

Anterior plate of pronotum densely punctate medially and glabrous laterally. Pronotum dorsomedially raised, distinctly higher than mesoscutum; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak. Lateral pronotal carina weak, almost reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate and pubescent. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present only along anterior third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum flat dorsally and transversely costate with superficial foveae set in rows. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; mesoscutellum broadly rounded posteriorly in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, glabrous, and transversely costate. Upper mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron glabrous and pubescent in ventral impression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part, with a small elevated glabrous area medially, and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent, strongly curved laterally at middle, and strongly raised anterodorsally into a conspicuous, lobular process with dorsal pubescence; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina present anteriorly, and two submedian longitudinal carinae present behind submedial transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.7 times as long as wide and 1.5 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.33 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 slightly exposed; relative length of T3–7: 2.2:1.0:1.2:2.8:1.4; T3–4 glabrous; T5 finely densely punctate; T6 densely punctate with a band of sparse pubescence dorsolaterally; and T7 densely punctate with anterior band of of conspicuous pubescence dorsolaterally. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. Apical process of first metatarsomeres very reduced. 1mt /2–5mt 5 0.5.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus distictus is very similar to P. fraxini and P. kosugii . It can be easily separated from all other Paramblynotus species by having a longitudinally carinate occiput and pronotum raised anteriorly into a peak, yet lacking apical protuberance of first metatarsomere. It differs from P. fraxini and P. kosugii in (1) antennal flagellum distinctly widened apically, apical flagellomere two times as wide as medial width of F1; (2) gena glabrate punctate; (3) mesoscutellum not projected posteriorly; and (4) body orange brown entirely.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Negri S., Pasoh Forest Reserve (forest gap), 1979-II-10, coll. P. and M. Becker ( AEI).

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, distinctus , distinct.