the cynipoid genus paramblynotus - American Museum of Natural ...

126 BULLETIN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY NO. 304
brous elevated median area; and (3) body size
much smaller.
TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: R, Borneo:
Sarawak (4 th div., Gn. Mulu, RGS. Exp.),
1977-IX-17–X-23, D. Hollis coll. (BMNH,
BM77-543).
DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Borneo.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, miniatus, red.
The name refers to its brown metasoma.
Paramblynotus obscurus, new species
FEMALE:
Length 3.5–4.5 mm. Body and
antenna entirely black. Legs black except
tibiae and tarsi of fore- and middle legs
yellow brown. Wings transparent. 1mt/2–5mt
5 0.60.
Antenna 13-segmented, flagellum filiform,
not widened apically. Vertex foveate-reticulate.
Eye extended laterally to as wide as
outer margin of gena. Ocellar plate raised
and foveate-reticulate and defined laterally
by carina lined along interior side with a row
of uniform large foveae; a glabrous triangular
area present beneath anterior ocellus. Median
frontal carina briefly present between
antennal sockets. Upper face rugose-foveate/punctate
laterally; antennal scrobe distinctly
depressed, glabrate and punctate with
long, appressed pubscence, and defined by
a carina laterally. Gena glabrate and foveatepunctate
with dense, appressed pubescence;
lower face and clypeus foveate-reticulate and
densely punctate with dense appressed pubescence;
anterior tentorial pits small and
distinct; clypeo-pleurostomal sulcus and epistomal
sulcus form a superficial, smoothly
curved arch. Lateral occipital carina not
reaching vertex. Occiput longitudinally carinate
medially and glabrous laterally.
Anterior flange of pronotum finely coriarious;
submedian pronotal depressions separated
from each other medially; anterior
pronotal plate glabrate and finely densely
punctate with appressed pubescence. Pronotum
raised dorsomedially; pronotal crest
gradually raised medially into a peak higher
than mesoscutum. Lateral pronotal carina
distinct, present only along lower third of
posterior margin of anterior pronotal plate.
Lateral surface of pronotum foveate-reticulate
and densely punctate with transverse
carinate component and conspicuous appressed
pubescence. Dorsal pronotal area
finely transversely striate, present along
anterior fourth of posterior margin of pronotum.
Mesoscutum flat dorsally and strongly
transversely costate with superficial foveae
set in rows and evenly distributed appressed
pubescence. Scutellar sulcus divided by a single
median longitudinal carina. Axillar area
with conspicuous pubescence. Mesoscutellum
foveate-reticulate; mesoscutellum broadly
rounded posteriorly in dorsal view; lateral
dorsal process visible, but indistinct in dorsal
view. Mesopleural triangle conspicuously
pubescent and well defined ventrally by
smoothly curved carina. Median mesopleural
impression percurrent and glabrous. Upper
mesopleuron glabrous and with sparse, short
pubescence anteriorly; lower mesopleuron
glabrous and densely pubescent in ventral
impression. Metepisternum areolate-reticulate
in upper part, conspicuously pubescent
ventrally, and with a large central elevated
glabrous area. Lateral propodeal carinae
percurrent, distinctly curved laterad and
distinctly raised dorsally to form a broadly
rounded lobe; median propodeal area glabrate;
median longitudinal carina percurrent
crossed by median transverse carina. Rs+M
of forewing nebulous, arising from middle of
basal vein. Marginal cell 2.2 times as long as
wide and 1.5 times as long as submarginal
cell. Bulla on Sc+R 1 absent.
Petiole 0.50 times as long as wide in lateral
view. Tergum 8 completely covered by T7;
relative size of abdominal T3–7:
1.9:1.0:1.2:2.7:0.8; T3–4 glabrous; T5 densely
finely punctate; T6 finely and densely punctate
with a narrow band of sparse pubescence
across anterior two-fifths of the tergite; and
T7 densely punctate, with a band of relatively
dense pubescence dorsolaterally in anterior
half and glabrous posteriorly. Apical teeth of
metatibia slender and pointed apically. Apical
protuberance of first metatarsomere
reaching slightly beyond middle of second
metatarsomere.
MALE: Body length 3.6 mm. Antenna
14-segmented. Terga 3–8 subequal with T3
and T5 larger than the others.
Paramblynotus obscurus differs from all
other species of the genus except P. miniatus
in having metatibia dorsally with dents. It
differs from the latter in (1) forewing with