Paramblynotus aptatus, 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 : 121-122

Paramblynotus aptatus , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.0 mm. Body entirely black except antenna, base and ventral side of postpetiolar metasoma, fore- and middle leg, and metatarsus brown to dark brown. Wings transparent. Metatarsomere 1mt/2– 5mt 5 0.60.

Antenna filiform; flagellum not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with longitudinal components laterally and longitudinally carinate medially. Eye extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, glabrate-foveate, and not defined laterally by carina; a small glabrous area present beneath anterior ocellus. Median frontal carina weakly present between antennal sockets. Upper face superficially foveate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed, glabrous, and defined by weak carina laterally. Gena glabrate and densely punctate with pubescence; lower face and clypeus foveate/punctate and longitudinally rugose; anterior tentorial pits distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form an indistinct, 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 glabrate anteromedially and otherwise densely punctate. Pronotum dorsomedially raised; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak distinctly higher than mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carina distinct and almost reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate and densely 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 median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveatereticulate and rounded posteriorly in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent and glabrous with several unevenly spaced, superficial transverse costae. Upper mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron glabrous, and pubescent in ventral impression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part, with a very small elevated glabrous area medially, and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lat- eral propodeal carinae percurrent, strongly curved laterally at middle, and strongly raised anterodorsally; median propodeal area superficially areolate; median longitudinal carina distinct anterior to submedial transverse carina and reduced posteriorly. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.0 times as long as wide and 1.6 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.65 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 5 the largest tergite, comprising more than half of postpetiolar metasoma in lateral view. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slender, and pointed apically. Apical protuberance of first metatarsomere absent. 1mt/ 2–5mt 5 0.5.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus aptatus is unique among all Paramblynotus species in having a combination of characters: (1) medial occiput longitudinal carination extends to vertex longitudinally carinate, (2) pronotum strongly raised anteromedially, (3) lateral surfaces of pronotum discontinuous dorsomedially, (4) apical protuberance of first metatarsomeres absent, and (5) T6 four times as large as T5.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Laos: Vientiane Province: Ban Van Eue , 1965-XII- 31, Native Collector coll. ( BPBM).

DISTRIBUTION: Laos.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, aptatus , meaning appropriate, fit, and suitable.