Paramblynotus vannoorti, 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 : 69-70

Paramblynotus vannoorti , new species

FEMALE: Length 2.2 mm. Body black except antennae dark yellow. Forewing mostly clear with a wide, medial smoky band covering marginal and submarginal cells and the areas behind; darker in marginal and sumarginal cells and lighter behind.

Antenna 13-segmented; flagellum gradually expanded apically; median flagellomeres not constricted. Vertex entirely diagonally carinate. Eye prominent, distinctly extended laterally beyond outer margin of gena. Distance between posterior ocelli nearly 5.0 times as wide as the distance between posterior ocellus and eye. Ocellar plate not raised, defined laterally by a carina, radiating carinate anteriorly and foveate-reticulate posterior to anterior ocellus; median frontal carina extended slightly beyond lower margin of antennal sockets. Upper face, including most of antennal scrobe, coriarious with very sparse fine punctures, and defined by carina laterally. Antennal scrobes shallow, glabrous posteriorly. Lower face coarsely coriarious and superficially foveate-reticulate. Anterior tentorial pits distinct. Clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal sulcus almost form an arch. Clypeus glabrous. Gena cariarious. Lateral occipital carina indistinct beyond vertex. Occiput glabrous.

Anterior flange of pronotum glabrous. Submedian pronotal depressions fused with each other medially. Anterior plate of pronotum glabrous anteriorly and sparsely, coarsely punctate posteriorly. Pronotum dorsomedially not distinctly raised; pronotal crest medially not raised into a process. Lateral pronotal carina distinct, nearly reaching pronotal crest dorsomedially. Lateral surface of pronotum coarsely foveate-reticulate. Dorsal pronotal area reaching to end of posterior margin of pronotum, glabrous anteriorly, 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 foveatereticulate; posterior margin 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 longitudinal impression percurrent with multiple unevenly distributed transverse carinae. Lower mesopleuron glabrous, pubescent ventrally. Metepisternum coarsely foveate-reticulate and nude above, with a small elevated, glabrous area medially, and pubescent ventrally. Propodeum mostly areolate-reticulate; lateral and median propodeal carinae present only anteriorly and about same strength as the additional longitudinal carinae present posteriorly. Median propodeal area alveolate anteriorly and longitudinally carinate posterorly. Nucha glabrous. Rs+M of forewing nebulous, arising from close to 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: 1.4:1.0:2.0:1.0:0:0.2; T3–4 glabrous; T5 very finely and sparsely punctate, T6–7 finely punctate; T7 completely covered by T6; T8 slightly exposed, with sparse setigerous puctures. All legs sparsely punctate with pubescence except metacoxa dorsally glabrous and metatibia and metatarsomeres densely pu-

bescent. Apical teeth of metatibia long, thin, and pointed apically. 1mt/2–5mt 5 0.56.

The new species is similar to P. scalptus , but it differs from the latter in the (1) vertex diagonally carinate entirely, (2) forewing clear basally and distally with a broad medial smoky band covering the marginal and submarginal cells and the areas behind, and (3) metasomal T7 of female completely covered by T6.

MALE: Unknown.

TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: ♀, South Africa: East Cape, Bathurst, Waters Meeting Nature Reserve , Lookout (33.32S, 26.47E), 1988-III-5, S. von Noort coll. ( SAM: SAM- HYM-P002873).

DISTRIBUTION: South Africa, East Cape.

ETYMOLOGY: The species is named after the Hymenoptera expert of South Africa, Simon van Noort.

BIOLOGY: The specimen bears a label reading ‘‘collected while feeding on flowers of Schotia affa ’’.