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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia bishariensis Efflatoun, 1937
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 10 macrosetae; ocellar tubercle silver pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white and yellow
Antennae: scape yellow, yellow setae ventrally; pedicel yellow, yellow setae dorsally and ventrally; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element light brown
Thorax: black; scutum silver pruinose, 2 narrow median longitudinal stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 lateral stripes, not reaching anterior margin, apruinose, white setae on pruinose area; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae short, white
Legs: pale yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora yellow, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, brown distad, clubbed; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae yellow, metathoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; empodium short, about a quarter of length of claws
Wings: hyaline, brown stained, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium and margins; pterostigma distinct, light brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 in proximal half apruinose dorsally, T1 with white setae laterally, T2 with few white setae laterally, remaining tergites with yellow and white setae, sternites grey pruinose, S2 apruinose proximally
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, small lobe ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight; dorsal aedeagal sheath laterally flattened; lateral apodeme simple.