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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia pipinna Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly silver pruinose, 2 narrow longitudinal median stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 1 antero-lateral spot and 1 lateral spot posterior to transverse suture apruinose; macrosetae: 1 white notopeural seta, 1 black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae pale yellow proximally and anteriorly, remaining part brown; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, microtrichiae evenly scattered on remigium; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; brown pruinose medially, grey pruinose on anterior, lateral, and posterior margins, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.