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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia obtusa 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 and dark brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, white setae ventrally and brown setae dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel proximally light brown, remaining part brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum black, sometimes anterior and lateral margins orange, predominantly yellow pruinose, margins silver pruinose, 2 lateral triangular spots, anterior and posterior to transverse suture, apruinose (not as distinct as in other species), yellow setae on margins; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 white or black supra-alar seta; scutellum white pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, setae white, metathoracic femora slightly clubbed, pale yellow proximally, club dorsally brown with short white setae; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae yellow, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae brown, yellow proximally, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, remaining tarsomere light brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium and on distal margin; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: black; tergites brown pruinose, anterior and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long 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 pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, not divided; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath extending gonopore; lateral apodeme simple.