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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia ochricornis (Loew, 1858)
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape light brown, setae white; pedicel yellow, white setae ventrally, brown setae dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel yellow, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element yellow
Thorax: Orange to black; scutum predominantly orange, black on apruinose areas, predominantly silver pruinose, brown pruinose medially, 2 median narrow longitudinal stripes, not reaching posterior margin, and 2 presut lateral spots and 2 post-sutural lateral spots apruinose, macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to light brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora light brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, light brown, clubbed, brown stripes laterally on club; tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe, not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae, anteriorly; empodium distinct, very short
Wings: hyaline, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium and margins; pterostigma indistinct; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites sometimes proximally orange, tergites brown pruinose medially, grey pruinose on anterior and posterior margins, T1 with black setae, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, sternites predominantly grey pruinose, apruinose anteriorly
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath open, extending gonopore, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath short; lateral apodeme simple.