Paramblynotus kekenboschi, 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 : 63-64

Paramblynotus kekenboschi , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.5 mm. Body dark brown to black except antenna and legs. Antenna yellow at base and becoming gradually black. Legs yellow.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum distinctly thicker apically; median flagellomeres constricted proximally and apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate with distinct 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 anten- nal sockets and lined by a row of irregular foveae along interior side; ocellar plate foveate. Upper face, including antennal scrobes, glabrate with fine punctures and weakly longitudinally carinate posteriorly; antennal scrobe defined by carina laterally. Median frontal carina present weakly from between antennal sockets to clypeus. Lower face foveate-reticulate with pubescence. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus longitudinally carinate with punctures. Gena foveate-rugose. Lateral occipital carina very developed, crestlike. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior plate of pronotum mostly glabrous except 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 largely foveate-reticulate, and longitudinally carinate ventrally. Dorsal pronotal area glabrous, narrow, and complete to end of posterior margin of pronotum. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and foveate-reticulate with foveae set in rows between indistinct transverse costae medially. 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 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 and median propodeal carina distinct only in anterior half before a transverse carina; median propodeal area entirely longitudinally carinate posteriorly. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from posterior middle of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.7 times as long as wide. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.75 times as long as wide in lateral view and glabrate dorsally. Relative length of T3–7: 1.4:1.0:1.2:3.6:1.0; T3–4 glabrous; T5 only with a few scattered punctures; T6 glabrous with a few punctures anteriorly and finely punctate posteriorly; T7 punctate with a row of sparse 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 0.56.

MALE: Unknown.

Paramblynotus kekenboschi is similar to P. zairensis , but it can be easily separated from the latter by (1) lateral surface of pronotum longitudinally costate in lower part; (2) lateral propodeal carina distinctly present anteriorly, posterior half of median propodeal area entirely longitudinally carinate; and (3) nucha dorsally longitudinally carinate.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, Zaire (P.N.A.): Massif Ruwenzori Kalonge (2,130 m), River Kiondo, aff. Butahu, 1952- VII-31, P. Vanschuytbroeck and J. Kekenbosch coll. ( NHM). PARATYPE: 1♀, Zaire (P.N.A.): Massif Ruwenzori Kalonge (2,010 m), River Nyamwamba, aff. Butahu, 1953-II-2, P. Vanschuytbroeck and J. Kekenbosch coll. ( NHM).

DISTRIBUTION: Zaire.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after one of the two collectors with the simpler last name.