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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia obudu Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: Dark brown; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 7 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput brown pruinose dorsally, silver pruinose ventrally, setae yellowish
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: Dark brown; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum dark brown, antero-laterally brown (forming a pattern of a median stripe reaching anterior margin and lateral stripes not reaching anterior margin), predominantly apruinose, margins silver pruinose, white and brown setae on margins, short presut and post-sutural dorso-central setae present; macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora light brown, metathoracic femora clubbed, pale yellow proximally, club brown (light brown towards tip), setae white; tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere on prothoracic and mesothoracic tarsomeres pale yellow proximally, on metathoracic tarsomeres pale yellow in proximal half, remaining tarsomere brown, black setae; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, microtrichiae only on distal margin of cells r1-r4; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: brown; tergites in proximal half apruinose, distal half brown pruinose, lateral and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 in proximal 2/3 apruinose, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal 2/3 with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white setae, T8 in F apruinose, sternites proximally apruinose, remaining part grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.