Paramblynotus cameroonensis, 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 : 62-63

Paramblynotus cameroonensis , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.0 mm. Body brown.

Antennae and legs yellow. Head, mesosoma except mesopleuron, and legs except metafemoral grooves with rather dense silver hairs. Wings clear.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum thicker apically; median flagellomeres constricted both proximally and apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with longitudinal carinate component. Eye laterally distinctly extended beyond outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised and defined laterally by a carina; lateral carina of ocellar plate meeting median frontal carina above antennal sockets and lined by a row of irregular foveae at interior side; ocellar plate foveate-reticulate. Upper face, including antennal scrobes, glabrate and weakly foveate-reticulate; antennal scrobe indistinctly depressed and laterally defined by lateral carina. Median frontal carina present weakly from between antennal sockets to level of lower margin of eyes. Lower face irregularly foveate-reticulate with long pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus punctate. Gena foveate-reticulate anteriorly and longitudinally costate posteriorly. Lateral occipital carina very developed, crestlike. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrate with faint transverse striation. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous mostly and punctate with pubescence posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, meeting pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous, narrow, and complete to end of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and nearly foveate-reticulate with indistinct transverse costae. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate and sloped posteriorly; posterior margin rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and with white pubescence. Upper mesopleuron, including speculum, glabrous; median longitudinal impression percurrent with evenly distributed transverse carinae; lower mesopleuron glabrous and pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum foveate-reticulate and nude above, with a small elevated glabrous area medially, and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum areolate-reticulate; lateral propodeal carina percurrent and strongly curved medially; median propodeal area glabrate with a percurrent medi- an longitudinal carina. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from posterior middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 3.5 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 weakly present.

Abdominal petiole 0.4 times as long as wide in lateral view and glabrate dorsally. Relative length of T3–7: 1.5:1.0:1.0:4.0:1.0; T3–5 glabrous; T6 glabrous except for a row of setigerous punctures; T7 punctate with a few setigerous punctures. T8 completely covered by T7. Front and middle legs sparsely punctate with pubescence; hindlegs sparsely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa glabrous dorsally and metatibia and metatarsomeres densely punctate with pubescence. Apical teeth of metatibia small, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.50.

MALE: Unknown.

The new species is similar to P. rwandensis , but it differs from the latter in the following characters: antennal scrobes not distinctly depressed; mesoscutum foveate-reticulate; head, pronotum, mesoscutum, and mesoscutellum dark brown; antenna yellow; lateral occipital carinae well developed and crestlike; and median propodeal area glabrate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Cameroon: Nkoemvon , 1979-XI-19–30, D. Jockson coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the type locality.