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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia natalensis Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi dark brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, black setae medially and white setae laterally
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, black setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum black, sometimes with antero-lateral red spots, brown pruinose, margins silver pruinose, sometimes pruinosity restricted to margins, 2 narrow median stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior and posterior margins, apruinose, yellow and brown setae medially, white setae on lateral margins, dorso-central setae well-developed; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; femora proximally yellow, brown distad, setae white, metathoracic femora clubbed, club with short white setae; tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with long brown setae, T2 in proximal third with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath open, extending gonopore, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath long, rounded; lateral apodeme simple.