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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia trifoliata Janssens, 1953
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, few macrosetae; ocellar tubercle apruinose; occiput silver pruinose, setae white and brown
Antennae: scape and pedicel light brown, setae brown, white pruinose; postpedicel brown, white pruinose proximally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: Orange to brown; scutum orange, 3 longitudinal stripes, median stripe not reaching posterior margin, lateral stripes originating medially, stripes fused distad, brown, margins silver pruinose, white setae on pruinose area, some white setae scattered on surface, macrosetae: white or brown, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta, 1 post-alar seta; scutellar silver pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, white or brown
Legs: yellow and light brown; femora brown, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed; tibiae brown, yellow stripe, not reaching tip on metathoracic tibiae, anteriorly; empodium long, nearly a quarter of length of a claws
Wings: hyaline; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres yellow
Abdomen: brown; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior, lateral, and posterior margins grey pruinose, T2 apruinose proximally, T1 with black setae, T2 with white long setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium ventral margin straight.