Paramblynotus seyrigi, van Noort & Buffington, 2013

Noort, Simon van & Buffington, Matthew L., 2013, Revision of the Afrotropical Mayrellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae), with the first record of Paramblynotus from Madagascar, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31, pp. 1-64 : 7

Paramblynotus seyrigi species-group

Remarks.

We erect this new species-group to accommodate a single species that is likely to be a Madagascan endemic. The island is known for its high degree of endemism ( Goodman and Benstead 2003).

Diagnosis. Paramblynotus seyrigi has closest affinities with the two Oriental species-groups Paramblynotus ruficollis and Paramblynotus punctulatus of Liu et al. (2007), however, the species is morphologically unique possessing a number of putative apomorphies listed below. The Paramblynotus seyrigi species-group shares the sculptural arrangement of the vertex (large ocelli with three distinct carinae extending to or between the toruli) with the two aforementioned Oriental species-groups, but the lack of an occipital carina in combination with an absence of a pronotal crest or tooth, and the putative derived apomorphic states where the posterior pronotal margin is uniquely represented by a swollen rim; reduced sculpture on the mesoscutum and a unique scutellar foveal character state comprising ten subfoveae separate it from these two groups. It is distinct from the two African species-groups Paramblynotus yangambicolus and Paramblynotus trisetosus in a number of characters including a glabrous mesopleuron without sculpture, antennal F1 equal in length to F2, and the presence of an angled latero-ventral pronotal margin.