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

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smoothly curved carina delimiting the triangle.
Median mesopleural impression percurrent
and glabrate with apparent transverse
carinae. Upper and lower mesopleuron glabrous;
lower mesopleuron also pubescent in
ventral impression. Metepisternum conspicuously
pubescent entirely. Lateral propodeal
carinae percurrent, distinctly divergent posteriorly,
and strongly raised dorsally to form
in the middle a distinct triangular process;
median propodeal area conspicuously pubescent
anteriorly and glabrous posteriorly;
median longitudinal carina anterior to the
median transverse carina barely visible due to
conspicuous pubescence. Rs+M of forewing
distinct except slightly nebulous in basal
third, arising from middle of basal vein.
Marginal cell 3.5 times as long as wide and
1.7 times as long as submarginal cell. Bulla
on Sc+R 1 absent.
Petiole 0.40 times as long as wide in lateral
view. Tergum 8 completely covered by T7;
relative size of abdominal T3–7: 2.3:1.0:1.2.
:3.8:1.4; T3 glabrous; T4–5 glabrous and
finely punctate dorsally; T6 finely and
densely punctate dorsolaterally, with a single
row of pubescence in the middle; T7 punctate
with pubescence dorsolaterally in anterior
third and glabrous posteriorly. Apical teeth
of metatibia slender and pointed apically.
Apical process of first metatarsomeres reaching
to two-thirds of second metatarsomere.
MALE: Unknown.
Paramblynotus fucosus is unique among all
Paramblynotus species for its very conspicuous
patch of silvery hairs covering the
metepisternum and propodeum, its evenly
ferruginous wings, and its relatively long
apical process of first metatarsomeres.
TYPE MATERIAL: HOLOTYPE: R, Papua
New Guinea: Bulolo Dist., 1982, H. Roberts
coll. (NHM).
DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, fucosus, colored,
painted. The name refers to the
ferruginous wings of the species.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This study is an expansion of part of Z.L.’s
Ph.D. dissertation supported by a scholarship
from the Oscar and Lili Lamm’s Memorial
Foundation and was partly supported by
a grant from the Swedish Natural Science
Research Council to F.R. and G.N. Visits to
insect collections by Z.L. and Meicai Wei in
China were supported by a research grant
from the National Natural Science Foundation
of China to Z.L. (no. 39300107). Part of
the systematic work was conducted when
Z.L. was supported by a Kalbfleisch fellowship
from the American Museum of Natural
History and a Boyd postdoctoral scholarship
at the Field Museum of Natural History.
During the later revisions of the manuscript,
Z.L. was funded by the Center for Insect
Science through NIH Training Grant 1 K12
Gm00708, EIU Council on Faculty Research
through a 2005 Summer Research Award,
and was supported by the Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum in many respects. Z.L. also
thanks David Strait for suggestions during
the development of the FMCK methods and
for making comparisons between the FMC
and FMCK methods using real data. The
assistance of the many curators from various
institutions (listed in material section) with
loans of specimens and their willingness (and
unwillingness) to extend these loans have
greatly helped the completion of the study.
Z.L is grateful to the colleagues of the
institutions where he has worked in the past
few years, especially former postdoctoral
supervisors Drs. J. Carpenter (AMNH), P.
Goldstein (FMNH), and R. Brusca (ASDM);
this project would be impossible to complete
without their support and encouragement.
Finally, the priviledge of Z.L being a Research
Associate of the American Museum of
Natural History made the publication of this
study possible.
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