Paramblynotus scaber Belizin, 1962

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 : 41-42

Paramblynotus scaber Belizin, 1962

Stylobrachys ; combination by Kovalev (1994: 414).

FEMALE: Length 4.3–4.8 mm. Body black entirely except tibiae and tarsi of legs yellow to yellow brown.

Upper face mostly longitudinally carinate except antennal scrobes glabrate-punctate ventrally. Median frontal carina weak, but distinct until one-third of lower face. Lower face mostly radiating-carinate and foveate, except foveate-reticulate medially. Clypeopleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch; clypeus transversely carinate. Gena foveate-rugose. Vertex longitudinally carinate with obscured foveae. Occiput glabrous, with sparse pubescence.

Anterior flange of pronotum densely carinate longitudinally. Anterior plate of pronotum anterior to lateral pronotal carinae heavily foveate with foveae set in rows between irregular transverse carinae. Lateral pronotal carina distinct except dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum foveatereticulate with broken oblique carinae. Median pronotal crest low with a broad emargination. Mesoscutum foveate-rugose with irregularly distributed transverse costae. Dorsal area of pronotum behind pronotal crest glabrous or with indistinct carinae and complete to end of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; sloping posterolaterally and posteromedially raised into a hump. Mesopleural triangle distinctly depressed and pubescent. Upper mesopleuron mostly glabrous except anteriorly foveate-rugose; speculum glabrous. Longitudinal mesopleural impression percurrent with several evenly distributed transverse costae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous with irregular foveae or punctures. Metanotal-propodeal complex glabrous in upper metepisternum and an upper small area of lower metepisternum, otherwise foveate-rugose with dense pubescence. Lat- eral propodeal carina percurrent and nearly parallel; median longitudinal carina almost percurrent and only diverged posteriorly.

Relative length of T3–T8: 2.3:1:1.2:4:1 0.8. T4–8 densely finely punctate; T6–8 also with a few slightly larger setigerous punctures. All legs, except metacoxa dorsally glabrous, densely pubescent. Metatibia apically with four stout, pointed teeth. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.65.

MALE: Length 3.0– 3.8 mm. All abdominal terga of equal length except T5 slightly longer than the rest.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: 2♀♀, 7OiOi (3T): ZISP.

DISTRIBUTION: Russia: Primorsk (Usury) and Khabalovsk.

REMARKS: The original author recorded six type specimens: twp females (one as type) and two males from Usury and two males from Khabalovsk, and one female from Irkusk (Belizin, 1962). However, we found two females and one male from Usury and four males from Khabalovsk, and one female from Irkusk in the type series. All specimens were labeled as ‘‘Paratypus’’ except the two females from Usury were labeled as ‘‘Holotypus’’. Between the two females that bear holotypus labels, one bears two labels, a white label reading as ‘‘ Holotypus Stylobrachys scaber V. Belizin det’’ (in handwriting) and a red label (similar to the paratype labels both in size and color) reading as ‘‘Holotypus’’. The other female specimen bears a larger and redder label reading ‘‘ Holotypus (in print) Stylobrachys scaber V. Belizin det ♀ ’’ (in handwriting) in one single label. The collection time and collector is the same on both; the locality is slightly different, but not separable based on Belizin’s original information. However, we think that the former ‘‘holotype’’ is an error because the color and size of the label is the same as the other paratypes, and the way the information was recorded onto the two labels is the same as four of the other six paratypes. Therefore, we consider that there is no need for selecting a lectotype. Nonetheless, we still attach an extra label reading ‘‘recognized Holotype of Belizin’’ to avoid confusion for future reference. Also in the original description, the collection date was recorded as 1937-VII-13, but the labels attached to the three types from Usury read ‘‘ 1937-VII –IX’’ and the types from Khabalovsk have no collection date.

A female paratype from Irkusk is a misidentification and is described in the present paper as a new species, Paramblynotus irkutensis .

Paramblynotus atratus Liu and Kovalev , new species figures 30–37

FEMALE: Length 3.5–4.0 mm. Body black entirely except legs dark brown. Wings transparent.

Upper face including antennal scrobes distinctly carinate longitudinally; ocellar plate foveate-reticulate. Median frontal carina present, distinct from below anterior ocellus to somewhat beyond lower margins of antennal sockets, and bifurcated posteriorly to delimit a small glabrous triangular area anterior to anterior ocellus. Lower face entirely foveate-reticulate and slightly rugose (fig. 30). Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus form a smoothly curved arch; clypeus foveate-rugose. Gena foveate with sparse pubescence. Vertex distinctly longitudinally carinate with foveae. Occiput glabrous (fig. 31).

Anterior flange of pronotum punctatefoveate. Anterior plate of pronotum before lateral pronotal carinae densely foveate with pubescence. Lateral pronotal carina distinct posteroventrally. Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate (fig. 35). Median pronotal crest indistinct and medially not or very slightly emarginate. Dorsal pronotal area transversely costate and complete to end of dorsal posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between distinct transverse costae (fig. 35). Mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; sloping posterolaterally with a posteromedial hump (figs. 34, 35). Mesopleural triangle distinctly depressed and pubescent. Upper mesopleuron glabrous except anteriormost part punctate; speculum glabrous. Longitudinal mesopleural impression percurrent with several irregularly distributed transverse costae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous with sparse pubescence. Metanotal-propodeal complex foveate-rugose, glabrous in upper metepisternum and an upper part of lower metepis- ternum and densely pubescent below. Lateral propodeal carina percurrent and medially distinctly curved laterally; median propodeal area areolate-reticulate, with median longitudinal carina bifurcated posteriorly at anterior third (fig. 34).

Abdominal petiole half as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.8:1:1.3:3:1:0.8. T5–8 densely finely punctate; T6–8 also with a few slightly larger setigerous punctures. All legs, except metacoxa, dorsally glabrous, densely punctate with pubescence. Metatibia apically with four pointed teeth. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.70.

The new species is similar to P. irkutensis but it can be easily distinguished by having antennal scrobes at least partly carinate posteriorly and pronotal crest medially not emarginate.

TYPE MATERIAL: 6♀♀, 4 OiOi : HOLOTYPE: ♀: Russia: Primorsk (20 km from Putzilobki Monakino, Forest), 1993-VI-24–28, Belokobylsk leg ( ZISP). PARATYPES: 10: 5♀♀, 4 OiOi, data as holotype ( ZISP) ; 1♀, Russia: Primorsk (10 km from Partizanska Dubniak), 1979-VII-18, Belokobylskij coll. ( ZISP) .

DISTRIBUTION: Russia: Vladivostok.

BIOLOGY: Unknown.