Paramblynotus miniatus, 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 : 125-126

Paramblynotus miniatus , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black. Antenna, metasoma, and legs brown to dark brown. Wings transparent. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.53.

Antenna 13-segmented, flagellum filiform, not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate only slightly raised and glabrate with sparse punctures and superficial foveae, and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina weakly and very briefly present above antennal sockets. Upper face rugose-foveate/punctate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed and glabrous with sparse punctures, and defined by very weak carina laterally. Gena glabrous and superficially foveate with sparse, appressed pubescence; lower face and clypeus glabrate and densely punctate/foveate with appressed pubescence; anterior tentorial pits small and distinct; clypeopleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a superficial, smoothly curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate medially and glabrous laterally.

Anterior plate of pronotum glabrate and densely punctate with appressed pubescence. Pronotum raised dorsomedially; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak distinctly higher than mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carinae distinct, not reaching pronotal crest dorsally. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with sparse pubescence. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present along anterior one-fifth of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum flat dorsally and transversely costate with superficial foveae set in rows. Scutellar sulcus divided only by a median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with distinct pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; mesoscutellum broadly rounded posteriorly in dorsal view; lateral dorsal process indistinct. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously pubescent and well defined ventrally by smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural impression percurrent and glabrous. Upper mesopleuron glabrous with short pubescence anteriorly; lower mesopleuron glabrous with dense pubescence in ventral impression. Metepisternum areolate in upper part, with a large central elevated glabrous area, and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent, strongly curved laterally and distinctly raised dorsally to form in the middle a broadly rounded process with sparse pubescence dorsally; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina present anterior to median transverse carina and absent posteriorly. Rs+M of forewing pale, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.4 times as long as wide and 1.3 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.40 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 completely covered by T7; relative size of abdominal T3–7: 2.3:1.0:1.4: 2.9:1.7; T3–5 glabrous; T6 and T7 densely and finely punctate, each with a single row of pubescence dorsolaterally in the middle. Apical teeth of metatibia slender and pointed apically. Metatibia with two dorsal (posteri- or) dents. Apical protuberance of first metatarsomere reaching to middle of second metatarsomere.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus miniatus differs from all other species of the genus except P. nebulosus in having metatibia dorsally with dents. It differs from the latter in (1) forewing without a broad dark gray band along outer margin; (2) upper metepisternum with a large, gla-

brous elevated median area; and (3) body size much smaller.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Borneo : Sarawak (4 th div., Gn. Mulu, RGS. Exp.), 1977-IX-17–X-23, D. Hollis coll. (BMNH, BM77-543).

DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, miniatus , red. The name refers to its brown metasoma.