Revision of the Afrotropical Mayrellinae (Cynipoidea, Liopteridae), with the first record of Paramblynotus from Madagascar
Author
Noort, Simon van
Natural History Department, Iziko South African Museum, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa & Department of Zoology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701
svannoort@iziko.org.za
Author
Buffington, Matthew L.
Systematic Entomology Lab, USDA, c / o Smithsonian NMNH, 10 th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20013
text
Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2013
2013-03-13
31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.31.4072
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.31.4072
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Paramblynotus
vannoorti Liu, Ronquist & Nordlander
Figures 30 A-F
Paramblynotus vannoorti
Liu, Ronquist & Nordlander, 2007: 69-70. Holotype female in Iziko South African Museum (SAMC). Type locality: South Africa, Bathurst, Waters Meeting Nature Reserve,
33°32'S
,
26°47'E
.
Additional material examined.
1F:
Tanzania
, Mkomazi Game Reserve,
3°52'59.723"S
,
37°52'34.631"E
, 30.xii.1995, G. McGavin, Tree canopy fogging, 3/3,
Acacia nilotica
, SAM-HYM-P025010 (SAMC); 7F, 2M:
Tanzania
, Mkomazi Game Reserve,
3°52'59.723"S
,
37°52'34.631"E
, 30.xii.1995, G. McGavin, Tree canopy fogging, 3/2,
Acacia reficiens
, SAM-HYM-P025011 (SAMC; USNM); 1F:
Tanzania
, Mkomazi Game Reserve,
3°57'39.399"S
,
37°51'44.229"E
, 6.i.1996, G. McGavin, Tree canopy fogging, 3/37,
Commiphora campestris
, SAM-HYM-P025012 (SAMC); 2F:
Kenya
, Eastern Prov., Samburu Nature Reserve, nr Ewaso
Ng'iro
River, 874m,
0.56797°N
,
37.53563°E
, Malaise trap, riverine forest next to headquarters, 18.IX-2.X.2007, R. Copeland (NMKE; USNM); 1F:
Kenya
, Eastern Prov., Njuki-ini Forest, nr. forest station, 1455m,
0.51660°S
,
37.4184°E
, Malaise trap just inside indigenous forest, 28.V-11.VI.2007, R. Copeland (RCPC).
Previously only known from the holotype female (
Figs 30 A-F
), we provide a description of male character states where they differ from those in the female.
MALE. Length 1.5mm. Very similar to female, except for longer abdominal petiole, 1.54
x
as wide as long in dorsal view, as long as high in lateral view. Tergite 5 laterally expanded and by far the largest tergite, latero-medially 1.5
x
longer than all other tergites combined. First flagellomere 1.5
x
length of second, slightly wider distally, excavated laterally.
Biology.
The Holotype was collected while feeding at flowers of
Schotia afra
L. (Karoo boer-bean), a tree in the family
Fabaceae
(subfamily
Caesalpinioideae
).
Distribution.
Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania.
Figure 30.
Paramblynotus vannoorti
, holotype female.
A
lateral habitus
B
dorsal habitus
C
head and mesosoma, lateral view
D
head and mesosoma, dorsal view
E
head anterior view
F
metasoma, lateral view.