Paramblynotus miltocephalus, 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 : 97

Paramblynotus miltocephalus , new species

FEMALE: Length 9.0 mm. Head red orange. Antenna, meso- and metasoma, and legs dark brown. Wings bicolored, forewing dark ferruginous in basal half and clear in distal half; hindwing ferruginous in basal two-thirds and clear in distal one-third.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum filiform. Vertex foveate with black pubescence. Eye prominent and distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised, glabrous anteriorly and foveate posteriorly, and defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina simple, extend- ed to level of lower margin of antennal sockets anteriorly and bifurcated posteriorly to seclude a small, triangular glabrous area beneath anterior ocellus. Upper face foveate laterally; antennal scrobe glabrous, densely finely punctate, and longitudinally carinate posteriorly; and antennal scrobe deeply depressed and well defined by carina laterally. Gena glabrous and very sparsely punctate. Lower face and clypeus punctate-reticulate and sparsely foveate; clypeus punctate anterior to submedian transverse inflexion. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Lateral occipital carina not reaching vertex. Occiput glabrous medially and densely punctate laterally.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous; submedian pronotal depressions separated from each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous laterally and punctate with a few foveae medially. Pronotum dorsomedially raised, but lower than mesoscutum; pronotal crest not raised medially. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate mostly and transversely carinate lateroventrally. Dorsal pronotal area glabrate, present along anterior half of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum arched dorsally and foveatereticulate, with foveae set in rows between superficial transverse costae posteriorly. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina. Mesoscutellum foveatereticulate; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Axillar area with distinct golden brown pubescence. Mesopleural triangle well defined ventrally by a smoothly curved carina and glabrate with sparse pubescence. Median mesopleural impression percurrent, not transversely costate; upper mesopleuron glabrous; lower mesopleuron glabrous, conspicuously depressed along ventral margin, and sparsely pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum glabrous and areolate-reticulate in upper part and pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent and almost parallel to each other, and raised throughout into a conspicuous ridge; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina only present before submedian transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing arising from anterior third of basal vein; basal vein nebulous. Marginal cell 3.5 times as long as wide and 1.8 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.64 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 entirely covered by T7; relative length of T3–7: 20:1.0:1.1:3.9:1.65; T3–5 glabrous; T6 mostly glabrous and only very sparsely punctate; T7 punctate with pubescence dorsolaterally and otherwise glabrous. Apical teeth of metatibia long, slen- der, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.78.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus miltocephalus is easily recognized among all Paramblynotus species by color pattern of its body and wings.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Laos: Vientiane Prov., Phou-kow-kui (800 m), 1965-IV-12–13, G. Gressitt coll. ( BPBM).

DISTRIBUTION: Laos: Vientiane Prov.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek, miltos, red, and cephalo-, head. The name describes the red orange color of the head in comparison to the dark brown color of its body.