Euscelidia lucida Oldroyd, 1939
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 5-8 macrosetae; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput yellow pruinose, few white setae
Antennae: scape and pedicel light brown, setae brown; postpedicel yellow, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element hyaline
Thorax: orange to brown; scutum brown, predominantly yellow pruinose, a median longitudinal stripe, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral longitudinal stripes, not reaching anterior margin, apruinose, surface of stripes black darkened, lateral and posterior margins with few yellow setae, macrosetae: black, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellum long, yellow
Legs: yellow and light brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora light brown, proximal half yellow posteriorly, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, light brown, slightly clubbed, club with brown stripe laterally, setae white; tibiae light brown, yellow stripe not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae anteriorly; empodium distinct, very short (empodium longer in holotype)
Wings: hyaline, some microtrichiae distad; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow with brown knob
Abdomen: brown; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, apruinose spot on T2-5 anteriorly, posterior margin grey pruinose, T1 with brown setae laterally, T2 with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short yellow setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally, dorsal lobe larger and pointed; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.
The species is distinguished from congeners by the predominantly apruinose scutum and features of the male terminalia.
Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori Range, Namwamba Valley (00°05'N 030°10'E).
Afrotropical Region: DR Congo, Nigeria, Uganda.
See this map for an up-to-date distribution map based on specimen records from numerous museum collections.