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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia insolita Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly apruinose, yellow pruinosity restricted to anterior, lateral, and posterior margins, yellow setae on pruinose area, few scattered on apruinose part; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 white or black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club with brown lateral stripe; tibiae light brown, brown stripe dorsally, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, brown stained, veins brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; grey pruinose, distal tergites more brown pruinose dorsally, T1 with long yellow 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 ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath proximally plate-like, distally with 4 lateral narrow lobes, dorsally with separate structure covering ductus ejaculatorius, medium length; lateral apodeme bifurcated.