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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia lucioides Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
Media
SUMMARY
Head: black; face silver pruinose (in upper half more yellow pruinose), facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, 6-8 macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle white pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, few white and yellowish setae
Antennae: scape yellow, white setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel yellow, brown setae ventrally and dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel yellow, brown distad, white pruinose; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: brown; postpronotal peg small, distinct, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly yellow pruinose, 3 apruinose longitudinal stripes, median stripe not reaching posterior margin, lateral ones not reaching anterior and posterior margins, yellow setae on margins; macrosetae: brown, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum white pruinose, discal scutellar setae and scutellar setae long, light brown
Legs: yellow to brown; femora light brown, yellow proximally, metathoracic femora slightly clubbed; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae light brown, pale yellow stripe anteriorly, metathoracic tibiae brown, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; tarsomere light brown, brown distad, black setae; empodium minute
Wings: hyaline, few microtrichiae scattered on remigium and on distal margin, slightly brown stained; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: brown; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior and posterior margins narrowly grey pruinose, T2 with apruinose spot medially, T3 with apruinose spot proximally, T1 with long brown setae laterally, T2 in proximal half with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with white to brown setae, sternites grey pruinose, S2 in proximal half apruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe dorsally and ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, blunt; lateral apodeme simple.