Paramblynotus scalptus, 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 : 68-69

Paramblynotus scalptus , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.8 mm. Head and mesosoma black. Metasoma black with T3 and T4 brown. Antennae yellow with distal three segments dark. Forewing clear in about distal two-fifths, and ferruginous basally. Fore- and middle legs brown to dark brown. Hindlegs dark brown to almost black.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum gradually expanded apically; median flagellomeres not constricted. Vertex densely punctate medially and diagonally carinate laterally. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Distance between posterior ocelli 3.5 times as wide as the distance between posterior ocellus and eye. Ocellar plate not raised and not defined laterally by a carina; median frontal carina only weakly present between antennal sockets. Upper face, including antennal scrobe, coriarious; antennal scrobes only slightly depressed with very slight traces of foveate sculpture, and defined by carina laterally. Lower face foveate-reticulate. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sul- cus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus distinctly longitudinally carinate. Gena foveate-punctate. Lateral occipital carina indistinct beyond vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous. Submedian pronotal depressions distinctly separated medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrate anteriorly and coriarious posteriorly, laterally also with setigerous punctures. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, not reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum coarsely foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area reaching end of posterior margin of pronotum and with closely arranged punctures in a single row. Mesoscutum distinctly arched dorsally and foveate-reticulate. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single median longitudinal carina; mesoscutellum foveate-reticulate; posterior margin narrowly rounded in dorsal view. Mesopleural triangle ventrally well defined by smoothly curved carina and with conspicuous white pubescence. Upper mesopleuron glabrous; speculum longitudinally carinate; and median impression percurrent with multiple unevenly distributed transverse carinae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous, conspicuously pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum impressed and nude above, with an elevated, glabrous-punctate area posteromedially, and somewhat depressed and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum mostly areolate-reticulate; lateral and median propodeal carinae present only anteriorly and about same strength as additional longitudinal carinae posteriorly. Nucha glabrous. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from posterior end of basal vein. Marginal cell 2.0 times as long as wide and slightly longer than submarginal cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.

Abdominal petiole 0.5 times as long as wide in lateral view. Relative length of T3–8: 1.4:1.0:2.0:0.8:0.15:0.3; T3–5 glabrous; T6–7 finely punctate; T7 of metasoma slightly exposed; T8 with a few large setigerous punctures. All legs densely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous. Apical teeth of metatibia long, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.55.

MALE: Length 2.5 mm.

Paramblynotus scalptus , as stated above, is similar to P. antistatus , but it can be distinquished by its sculptured vertex and gena. In addition, its forewing is more extensively ferruginous, extending to cover basal three-fifths, instead of basal two-thirds as P. antistatus .

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, South Africa: Transvaal (Rustenburg Nature Reserve, 25.40S, 27.12E), 1983-XII-8, C.D. Eardley coll. ( PPRI). PARATYPES: 1♀, 1 Oi: 1♀, South Africa, Transvaal, Kruger National Park, Pufuri (22.26S, 31.12E), 1984-I-21, C.D. Eardley coll. ( PPRI) ; 1 Oi , South Africa, East Transvaal (in woodland 15 km east of Klaserie, Guernsey Farm), 1985-XII-19–31, S. and J. Peck coll. ( CNCI) .

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, East Transvaal.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, scalpo, cut, carve. The name describes the sculptured vertex and gena of the species as compared to P. antistatus .