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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia rapacoides Oldroyd, 1972
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
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 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; scutum predominantly apruinose, margins and 2 lateral stripes silver pruinose, white setae scattered on pruinose part, macrosetae: 1 black notopeural seta, 1 white or black supra-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, yellow
Legs: yellow to brown; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora orange proximally, brown distad, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, distal half brown, clubbed; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae brown, yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae yellow proximally, remaining part brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; empodium minute
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae, cell c and sc brown coloured, remaining cells light brown; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 3 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: (segments 1-5) Black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior and posterior margins grey pruinose, T1 with white setae, T2 with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white or brown setae, sternites grey pruinose, S2 apruinose
Male terminalia: male specimens unknown.