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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia venusta 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 brown-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, without setae, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: predominantly orange-red; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum orange-red, white pruinose, longitudinal stripe medially, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral longitudinal stripes, originating medially not reaching posterior margin, black, black stripes and a spot anterior to lateral stripes apruinose, white setae on lateral and posterior margins; macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum white pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; femora proximally yellow, brown distally, setae white, metathoracic femora clubbed, club brown ventrally and dark brown dorsally; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae laterally brown, yellow stripes not reaching tip anteriorly and posteriorly; first tarsomere yellow proximally, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, brown stained, few microtrichiae in distal half, veins brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 with apruinose ring medially, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and yellow setae, S1 apruinose in proximal half, remaining sternites apruinose proximally, grey and light brown pruinose distally
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 short lobes; lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath short; lateral apodeme bifurcated.