Paramblynotus kitrinocarus, 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 : 122-123

Paramblynotus kitrinocarus , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.8 mm. Head orange. Antenna black with scape orange; meso- and metasoma black. Legs black except tibiae and tarsi of fore- and middle legs yellow brown. Wings transparent. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.5

Antenna 13-segmented, flagellum filiform, not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, foveate to foveate-reticulate, and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina weakly present from between antennal sockets to clypeus. Upper face foveatepunctate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, densely punctate, and not defined by carina laterally. Gena glabrate and foveate with pubescence; lower face and clypeus foveate and densely punctate-reticulate; anterior tentorial pits small, but distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form smoothly curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate medially and glabrous laterally.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous, submedian pronotal depressions separated from each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous anteromedially and otherwise densely punctate with appressed pubescence. Pronotum raised dorsomedially; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak as high as mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, present only in lower two-thirds. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate and pubescent. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present along anterior third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum mostly flat dorsally and slightly inclined anteriorly, 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, broadly rounded posteriorly in dorsal view; lateral dorsal process distinct. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, glabrous, and with a few unevenly spaced, superficial transverse costae. Upper mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron glabrous and densely pubescent in ventral impression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent, strongly curved laterally at middle, strongly raised anterodorsally, and flatted dorsally with coarse punctures; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina present anteriorly and absent behind submedian transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein, weak and nebulous toward base. Marginal cell 2.5 times as long as wide and 1.2 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.6 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 slightly exposed; relative size of abdominal T3–8: 2.1:1.0:1.4:2.9:1.0:0.3; T3–5 glabrous; T6 densely punctate with a middle transverse band of sparse pubes- cence dorsolaterally; T7 densely punctate with anterior band of dense pubescence dorsolaterally; exposed part of T8 coarsely punctate with pubescence. Apical teeth of metatibia reduced, but distinctly slender and pointed apically. Apical protuberance of first metatarsomere reaching to middle of second metatarsomere.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus kitrinocarus is unique among all species of the punctulatus group by its color pattern, and it can be further distinguished from those species of the group that have a longitudinally carinate occiput by having (1) a simple, but percurrent median frontal carina, and (2) an exposed T8.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Sabah, Sipitang: Mendolong , 1988-V-11, S. Adebratt ( ZMLU, 1996-089).

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek, kitrino, red, and carus, head. The name refers to the orange color of the head in contrast to the black color of the rest of the body.