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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia splendida Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity distinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brownish-black, setae white; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput dorso-laterally apruinose, silver pruinose ventrally, setae white
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: black; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum bluish-black, predominantly apruinose, margins silver pruinose, white and yellowish setae scattered on margins, few short white setae scattered on apruinose part; macrosetae: white or black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, brown
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic femora yellow, mesothoracic femora yellow proximally, remaining part brown, metathoracic femora in proximal half pale yellow, clubbed, club in proximal 2/3 brown, distal third yellow, setae white; tibiae yellow proximally, remaining part brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; first tarsomere in proximal half yellow, brown in distal half, remaining tarsomere brown, black setae; empodium short, about a fifth of length of claws
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, but wing only slightly brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 with grey pruinose ring medially, T1 with long yellow setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white and yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath dorso-ventrally flattened, medium length, gonopore on distal tip; lateral apodeme simple.