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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia mucronata Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown proximally, light brown distally, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly yellow pruinose, margins silver pruinose, 2 apruinose presut spots and 2 triangular apruinose post-sutural spots/stripes laterally, yellow setae on yellow pruinose and white setae on silver pruinose part; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora slightly clubbed, yellow proximally, club brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae dark brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow proximally, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, but microtrichiae evenly scattered on remigium, cells br and bm with very few microtrichiae, slightly browned stained; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 pointed lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.