Paramblynotus prinslooi, 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 : 53-54

Paramblynotus prinslooi , new species

FEMALE: Length 4.5 mm. Head, antennae, and mesosoma mostly black; mandibles, upper part of lateral surface of pronotum, propodeum, metasoma, and legs red brown. Wings clear.

Head strongly compressed longitudinally, occiput only slightly concave in dorsal view. Ocellar plate not obviously raised and not defined laterally by carinae. Antennal scrobe not defined by lateral carinae. Upper face glabrous and punctate-foveate entirely. Median frontal carina only shortly present between antennal sockets and two lateral carinae branching from it at level of upper margin of antennal socket toward (reaching or not) posterior ocellus. Vertex glabrous; sparsely punctate anteriorly and rather densely foveate posteriorly. Eye prominent, laterally extended much beyond outer margin of gena. Lower face entirely punctate-foveaterugose with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch. Clypeus foveate-reticulate. Gena glabrous and moderately densely foveate/punctate. Occiput glabrous with setigerous punctures.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrate; anterior plate of pronotum foveate-reticulate with pubescence, and posteriorly also longitudinally carinate. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised. Pronotal crest medially without emargination. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate, and also somewhat glabrate posteriorly and ventrally. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous and complete to end of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate, not transversely costate. Scutellar sulcus divided by several submedian longitudinal carinae. Dorsal surface of mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posteriorly sloping gradually. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina; upper mesopleuron foveate-reticulate; medi- an impression percurrent with evenly spaced transverse carinae; speculum elevated and glabrous. Metanotal-propodeal complex coarsely foveate-rugose with dense pubescence. Propodeum not protruding posteriorly; postsubpleuron short. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent, distinctly curved medially, and forming a right angle with dorsal surface of nucha in lateral view; median propodeal carina percurrent and crossed by two transverse carinae. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from basal vein at posterior two-thirds. Marginal and submarginal cells of forewing short; marginal cell 1.65 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 distinct.

Abdominal petiole 0.3 times as long as wide in lateral view. Posterior margin of T7 of metasoma concave, exposing T8. Relative length of T3–8: 1.8:1:1.4:4.2:0.8:0.8; T4–8 densely finely punctate; T6–8 also with a band of larger setigerous punctures. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except femora sparsely so and metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Metatibia apically with four long, slender, apically pointed teeth. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.45.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus prinslooi is unique among all species of Paramblynotus in (1) head strongly compressed longitudinally, occiput only slightly concave in dorsal view, and (2) propodeum not protruding posteriorly with lateral propodeal carinae forming a right angle with dorsal surface of nucha in lateral view; postsubpleuron short. This species is also unique among other species of the trisetosus group in (1) vertex, upper face, and genae glabrate-punctate with hairs; (2) mesoscutum foveate, without transverse costae; and (3) upper mesopleuron densely punctate with hairs in anterior half.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, South Africa, De Wildt , 1979-iv, G.L. Prinsloo coll. ( PPRI).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after its collector Gerhard Prinsloo.