Paramblynotus maculipennis, Liu, Zhiwei, Ronquist, Fredrik & Nordlander, Göran, 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 : 56-57

Paramblynotus maculipennis , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.5 mm. Head, antenna, and mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs dark brown. Wings lightly smoky with marginal and submarginal cells deeply ferruginous.

Antenna 12-segmented. Vertex foveate-reticulate with subordinate longitudinal carinate component. Eye prominent, laterally extended much beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by a carina; lateral carina delimiting ocellar plate extended beyond lower margin of antennal sockets; ocellar plate longitudinally carinate anterior to anterior ocellus. Upper face longitudinally carinate laterally; antennal scrobe longitudinally carinate posteriorly and glabrous anteriorly, and laterally defined by lateral carinae. Median frontal carina present from anterior ocellus to slightly beyong lower margin of antennal sockets. Lower face coarsely foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits indistinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus straight. Clypeus longitudinally carinate. Gena asperous and punctate, with short horizontal carinae close to eye. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior plate of pronotum coarsely punctate with pubescence. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially raised into a small, triangular process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area foveate, indistinctly transversely carinate, complete along whole length of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum, narrowing posteriorly. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate with short, indistinct transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided only by median longitudinal carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum areolate-reticulate, slightly sloping posteriorly; posterior margin of mesoscutellum truncate. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina. Upper mesopleuron almost entirely coarsely foveoate-reticulate except speculum glabrous; median impression percurrent with evenly spaced transverse carinae. Metanotalpropodeal complex areolate-punctate-rugose with metepisternum largely areolate-reticulate and densely pubscent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, slightly curved medially; median propodeal area with a percurrent median longitudinal carina crossed by a transverse carina. Rs+M of forewing distinct, arising from middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.3 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 present.

Abdominal petiole 0.7 times as long as wide in lateral view. Posterior margin of T7 of metasoma only slightly concave, exposing T8 as a small triangle. Relative length of T3– 8: 1.7:1.0:1.0:4.0:0.8:0.6; T3–5 glabrous; T6 very finely punctate on posterior half and glabrous anteriorly; T7–8 densely punctate; T6–8 also with small cluster of larger setigerous punctures. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four slender, apically pointed teeth. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.7.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus maculipennis can be easily separted from P. nigricornis by its maculate forewings and 12-segmented antennae, from P. samiatus by its foveate-rugose upper mesopleuron, and from P. townesorum by its small triangular process raised from pronotal process and scutellar sulcus divided by only median longtitudinal carina.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Zaire, Kivu (Goma Borob lac Kiou), 1987-IX-20– 22, Ph. Bruneau de Mire coll. ( IRCT).

DISTRIBUTION: Zaire: Kivu.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, macula, mark, and penna, wing. The name describes the species’ maculate forewing.