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Leptogastrinae
Euscelidia longibifida Dikow, 2003
Nomenclature
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Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Euscelidia
SUMMARY
Head: black; face yellow pruinose, facial gibbosity indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and maxillary palpi dark brown, setae white; ocellar tubercle brown pruinose dorsally; occiput silver pruinose, setae white
Antennae: scape brown, black setae ventrally, white pruinose; pedicel light brown, brown setae ventrally and white setae dorsally, white pruinose; postpedicel light brown, white pruinose proximally and ventrally; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown
Thorax: black; postpronotal peg large, silver pruinose; scutum predominantly brown pruinose, margins silver pruinose, a lateral presut and a lateral post-sutural spot may be apruinose, presut and post-sutural dorso-central s short, white setae on margins; macrosetae: white, 1 notopeural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum white pruinose, scutellum ds and scutellar setae long, white
Legs: yellow to brown; femora yellow, white setae, metathoracic femora pale yellow proximally, clubbed, club anteriorly light brown, setae short, white; prothoracic and mesothoracic tibiae yellow, light brown dorsally, metathoracic tibiae yellow proximally, brown distally, pale yellow stripe not reaching tip anteriorly; first tarsomere yellow, brown distad, remaining tarsomere brown, setae black; empodium minute
Wings: densely covered with microtrichiae; pterostigma distinct, brown; discal cell terminating in 2 veins; halteres light brown
Abdomen: black; tergites predominantly brown pruinose, anterior and posterior margins narrowly grey pruinose, T2 with grey pruinose ring medially, T1 with long white setae laterally, T2 in proximal third with white setae laterally, remaining tergites with short white and brown setae, sternites grey pruinose
Male terminalia: surstylus pointed distally, lobe ventrally; hypandrium bent upwards, divided into 2 separated lobes; dorsal aedeagal sheath short, lateral processes of dorsal aedeagal sheath long, extending gonopore; lateral apodeme simple.