Euscelidia obudu Dikow, 2003
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.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the predominantly apruinose scutum and abdominal tergites, the brown coloration of the thorax, and features of the male terminalia.
Type locality: Nigeria, Obudu (06°40'N 009°09'E).
Afrotropical Region: Nigeria.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.