Paramblynotus coracinus, 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 : 127-128

Paramblynotus coracinus , new species

FEMALE: Length 3.5–4.5 mm. Body and antenna entirely black. Legs black except tibiae and tarsi of fore- and middle legs yellow brown. Wings transparent, with a ferruginous macula covering marginal cell and part of third cubital cell behind marginal cell. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.54.

Antenna 13-segmented, flagellum filiform, not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate. Eye extended laterally, slightly not as wide as to outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate distinctly raised and foveate and not defined laterally by carina. Median frontal carina weakly present between antennal sockets and slightly beyond ventrally. Upper face rugosefoveate/punctate laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly depressed and coarsely punctate with distinct pubescence, longitudinally carinate posteriorly, and distinctly defined by carina laterally. Gena glabrate and superficially foveate and punctate with sparse pubescence; lower face and clypeus foveate and densely punctate with dense appressed pubescence; anterior tentorial pits small and distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a superficial, 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 pronotal plate glabrous medially and finely densely punctate with appressed pubescence, especially laterally. Pronotum raised dorsomedially; pronotal crest gradually raised medially into a peak higher than mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, present in lower half of posterior margin of anterior pronotal plate. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate with transverse costate components, and distinctly pubescent. Dorsal pronotal area finely transversely striate, present along anterior third of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum flat dorsally and transversely costate with superficial foveae set in rows and evenly distributed appressed pubescence. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina. Axillar area with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate, 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; lower mesopleuron glabrous and densely pubescent in ventral impression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate in upper part, with a large elevated, glabrous median area medially, and conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Lateral propodeal carinae percurrent, distinctly curved laterally and strongly raised dorsally to form in the middle a low triangular process; median propodeal area glabrate; median longitudinal carina weak and percurrent. Rs+M of forewing arising from middle of basal vein and nebulous in basal half. Marginal cell 2.5 times as long as wide and nearly as long as submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Petiole 0.50 times as long as wide in lateral view. Tergum 8 slightly exposed; relative size of abdominal T3–7: 2.0:1.0:1.1:2.5:1.4; T3 glabrous; T4 glabrous with a narrow band of fine punctures across anterior the second fifth; T5 glabrous and finely punctate; T6 finely and densely punctate dorsolaterally, and with a narrow band of sparse pubescence in the middle; and T7 densely punctate entirely, with a band of dense pubescence dorsolaterally in the middle. Apical teeth of metatibia slender and pointed apically. Metatibia with two to three dorsal (posterior) dents. Apical protuberance of first metatarsomere reaching to distal two-thirds of second metatarsomere.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus coracinus is most similar to P. lutepennis and P. obscurus , but it can be easily distinguished from the latter two by the ferruginous mark on forewing.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Malaysia: Negri S.: Posah Forest Reserve (Forest gap), 1979-II-28, P. and M. Becker coll. ( AEI). PARATYPES: 3♀♀, locality and collectors as holotype, 1978-XII-3 – 1979-II-18 ( AEI: 2; CFR: 1) .

DISTRIBUTION: Malaysia: Borneo.

ETYMOLOGY: From New Latin, coracinus , meaning crowlike. The name refers to the entirely dark body color of the species.