You are here
Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia lepida Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
-
Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 6 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape dark brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel dark brown, brown distally, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel dark brown, brown proximally, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum bluish-black, predominantly silver pruinose, median stripe, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral spots, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, white setae on margins; macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; femora brown, setae white, metathoracic femora clubbed; tibiae brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium little longer than half the length of claws
Wings: hyaline, microtrichiae on distal margin of cell r1 to r5; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: black; tergites grey pruinose, T1 with long white and brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus blunt, rounded distally, narrow ventral lobe proximally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; lateral process of gonostyli triangular in lateral view; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, pointed; lateral apodeme simple.